G Quotes
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“Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.”
“Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.”
“Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.”
“Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.”
“Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.”
“Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.”
“Great men,
Till they have gained their ends, are giants in
Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies
In their performance. And it is a maxim
Allowed among them, so they may deceive,
They may swear anything; for the queen of love,
As they hold constantly, does never punish,
But smile, at lovers' perjuries.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an Introduction, by Hartley Coleridge
“Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.”
Source: Public Opinion
“Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.”
Source: Robert Burns
“Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Great men, like nature, use simple language.”
“Great mentorship is priceless.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Great mercy covers a multitude of sinful mistakes.”
“Great mercy, great love.”
“Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes.”
“Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.”
“Great mind; ecstatic yet calm.”
Source: Modified Leadership
“Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.”
Source: Purcell, Didon et Enée
“Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.”
“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
Source: The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition
“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.”
Source: The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
“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.”
Source: Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community
“Great minds discuss ideas; greater minds deliver results.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
“Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.”
“Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.”
“Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize.”
“Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face.”
“Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.”
“Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.”
“great minds save before they spend, but idiots spend as soon as the income arrives, they never plan because they never save”
Source: your life can be changed.: the true guide to become a change maker!
“Great minds sink alike, right?”
Source: Story of My Life
“Great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.”
“Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.”
Source: Collected Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant: The Necklace + The Piece of String + Boule de Suif + Mademoiselle Fifi + Pierrot + Two Friends + La Maison Tellier + Ghosts and much more: From one of the greatest French writers, widely regarded as the ‘Father of Short Story’ writing, who had influenced W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Anton Chekhov and Henry James
“Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.”
Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.”
“Great minds think alike.”
“Great minds think alone.”
“Great minds think for themselves.”
“Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.”
Source: Christian Science Sentinel
“Great mission lies ahead of us.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Great Modesty often hides great Merit.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Great moments are born great opportunity.”
“Great moments are ephemeral, like a lovely text message or viral twitter moment, but when lived, it's like looking through the eyes of humanity.”