G Quotes
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“Great tribulations, greater trust in God.”
“Great triumphs can only come out of great trials”
“Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.”
“Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.”
Source: On Civil Liberty and Self-government
“Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.”
Source: Poetical works
“Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.”
“Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.”
“Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy”
Source: The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“Great use they have, when in the hands
Of one like me, who understands,
Who understands the time and place,
The person, manner, and the grace,
Which fools neglect; so that we find,
If all the requisites are join'd,
From whence a perfect joke must spring,
A joke's a very serious thing.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill
“Great victory demands great venture.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Great victory requires great risk.”
Source: The Lost Hero
“Great victory requires great risk. -Hera”
“Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!”
“great villains make great movies.”
“Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings.”
Source: The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”
“Great visions are cast one on one.”
“Great vocal track on "You can't cheat fate."”
“Great warriors are not made overnight.”
“Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.”
“Great wars can only be fought by great powers.”
“Great was the work of creation, but greater was the work of redemption. Great wisdom was seen in making us—but more miraculous wisdom in saving us. Great power was seen in bringing us out of nothing—but greater power in helping us when we were worse than nothing. (...) In the creation, God gave us ourselves; in the redemption, He gave us Himself.”
“Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.”
“Great way to fight a war - be prepared to defend yourself for winning.”
“Great wealth is its own nationality.”
“Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.”
“Great wealth often curses all who touch it.”
Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
“Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,
Gathers and melts.”
“Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.”
“Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth round its roots so the tree is able to get its roots deeper into the earth, where it receives fresh supplies of nourishment. But only much later will it be seen to bring forth better fruit. So corruptions and temptations develop the roots of humility, self-abasement and mourning in a deeper search for that grace by which holiness grows strong. But only later will there be visible fruits of increased holiness.”
“Great winds only challenge great trees.”
“Great wine is always enhanced by great food.”
“Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.”
“Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.”
“Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.”
Source: The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
“Great witch, tough woman.”
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
“Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
Source: Absalom and Achitophel
“Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.”
Source: Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London
“Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Great women aren't born great, they become great.”
“Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.”
“Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.”
Source: Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales
“Great work doesn’t make me jealous; it makes me want to work.”
“Great work is always shunned at first.”
“Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.”
“Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.”