A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A great leader rises above his past and plans out a great future in present.”
Source: Modified Leadership
“A great leader unlocks people's potential to become better”
“A great leader uplifts with innovation or enables others too.”
Source: Modified Leadership
“A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers.”
“A great leader will not waste time reacting to the filthy toolkit but will devote that time to the growth of the entity.”
Source: Modified Leadership
“A great leader will revive the lost spirit ensuring people feel connected.”
Source: Modified Leadership
“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”
Source: The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow
“A great leap in the dark”
“A great lesson: When someone tells you not to bother dreaming, they’re not on your side.”
“A great library contains the diary of the human race.”
“A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.”
“A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.”
Source: The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...
“A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.”
“A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.”
“A great life begins with a great thought.”
“A great life evolves with gratitude.”
“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a human heart and a curious mind.”
“A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.”
“A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.”
“A great look is pleasant, beauty is endowed with the power to captivate.”
“A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.”
“A great love is a lot like a good memory. When it's there, and you know it's there, but its just out of your reach, it can be all that you think about. And you can focus on it, and try to force it. But the more that you do, the more you seem to push it away. But if you're patient, and hold still...Maybe. Just maybe, it'll come to you.”
“A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“A great magazine is sort of a net for ability.”
Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life
“a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.”
Source: Murder at the manor: The Seven dials mystery, Crooked House, Ordeal by innocence
“A great man does great things because he knows how great he is. He always walks on a path of blessings.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A great man does not make noise about his capabilities. He does whatever he can to the best of his abilities.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A great man does not seek validation from material possessions, nor does he make noise about his abilities. He knows his priorities, and he creates a wealth of opportunities.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A great man does not settle for anything shallow. He seeks depth and avoids the hollow.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert.”
Source: A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
Source: Compensation and Self-Reliance
“A great man is credible and respectable. His life serves as a living example. He is both smart and humble. His legacy is imprinted on the hearts of men, not etched in marble.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.”
“A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.”
“A great man is he who can be the humblest.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“A great man is made so for others.”
“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.”
Source: Literary and political addresses
“A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A great man is not one who avoids failure, but one who accepts it.”
“A great man is one sentence.”
“A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart.”
Source: Lun Yü
“A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.”
“A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that”
Source: An Old Man's Jottings
“A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.”
“A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.”
Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.”
Source: The Fight and Other Writings
“A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.”
Source: Poetical works
“A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6
“A great man listens to wise counsel and follows a thoughtful plan. That is why he excels in this world.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A great man makes a difference in the world because he is different from the rest.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams