G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.”
Source: The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed
“Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.”
“Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.”
Source: Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge
“Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.”
Source: All Marketers are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All
“Great stories changed our heart and penetrated our soul.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.”
“Great stories draw us into their world and never let go. They continue to influence us long after the last page or the rolling credits. They grow on us, becoming a part of us. They create shared experiences, allowing us to build bridges with others and form communities. Behind their magic lies a science—something we can study, understand, and master.”
Source: The Natural Laws of Story: Master the Art and Science of Engaging Narratives
“Great stories happen all around you every day. At the time they’re happening, you don’t think of them as stories. You probably don’t think about them at all. You experience them. You enjoy them. You learn from them. You’re inspired by them. They only become stories if someone is wise enough to share them. That’s when a story is born.”
Source: Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire
“Great stories happen to those who can tell them.”
“Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world.”
“Great stories move through fear.”
“Great stories strengthen us to be great souls.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.”
“Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.”
“Great storms only challenge great sailors.”
“Great strategy is consummately practical.”
“Great strategy, not executed, can't possibly have any effect on performance because it doesn't actually affect anything. It's like planning for a successful surgery to remove a tumor. If no one picks up the knife and actually operates effectively, the diseases will persist.”
“Great striking partnerships come in pairs.”
“Great strokes make not sweete musick.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Great struggles have always preceded greater opportunities. Look!”
“Great struggles make for great stories.”
“Great style and posture go hand in hand.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“Great style means having a point of view, but evolving your look is even more important. Rushing to embrace every trend will leave you fashionable, but not stylish”
“Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.”
“Great success breeds a lot of things, including sequels.”
“Great success does not come without failure and shame”
“Great success doesn't come without a little bit of risk.”
“Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.”
Source: My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes
“Great success is a great temptation.”
Source: Miscellaneous Discourses
“Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.”
“Great success never comes without great struggle. Then why do we fear failure and struggle?”
“Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“Great Sun. I thank you, fiery master, in your heavenly domain, for your warmth and light, and for your protection against the dark evil of the desert. We are servants to your will.”
Source: Ceres
“Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.”
Source: The Absorbent Mind
“Great talent admits shortcomings.”
“Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.”
“Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.”
Source: EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
“Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.”
“Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.”
“Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.”
Source: 道德经
“Great talents, by the rust of long disuse,
Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.”
“Great talkers are little doers.”
“Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.”
“Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.”
“Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Great talkers, little doers.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students to higher levels of excellence. They shun mere conformity and expect their students to think and perform to their ever-increasing potential.”
“Great teachers are not made in training institutes. Great Teachers are made in classrooms when they are cornered, questioned and tested by students. The way teachers face these challenges with patience, efficiency and dignity defines their greatness.”
Source: Wanted Back-Bencher and Last-Ranker Teacher
“Great teachers are usually a little crazy.”
“Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama. And I wanted my teachers to make me smart. A great teacher is my adversary, my conqueror, commissioned to chastise me. He leaves me tame and grateful for the new language he has purloined from other kings whose granaries are filled and whose libraries are famous. He tells me that teaching is the art of theft: of knowing what to steal and from whom. Bad teachers do not touch me; the great ones never leave me. They ride with me during all my days, and I pass on to others what they have imparted to me. I exchange their handy gifts with strangers on trains, and I pretend the gifts are mine. I steal from the great teachers. And the truly wonderful thing about them is they would applaud my theft, laugh at the thought of it, realizing they had taught me their larcenous skills well.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline