3 December 2020 William Glasser What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
3 December 2020 Samuel Smiles The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
3 December 2020 George Eliot When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
3 December 2020 Colin Powell Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
3 December 2020 W. C. Fields Show me a great actor and I’ll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you’ve seen the devil.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one’s being clever.
3 December 2020 Julie Walters I never wanted to become an actress because I’d read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
3 December 2020 Fred Durst To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.
3 December 2020 Lee Iacocca We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
3 December 2020 Willa Cather It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
3 December 2020 Jeff Foxworthy That’s the great thing about a tractor. You can’t really hear the phone ring.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.
3 December 2020 George Eliot There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
3 December 2020 Albert Pike Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
3 December 2020 Denis Diderot The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
3 December 2020 William Ellery Channing Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They’re always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you’re doing something right.
