I Quotes
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“It is good to wish to be successful, but never wish someone else success, because you never know what they went through or what they have done for it. Choose to have your own success.”
“It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (the Euphuist.): John Lilly and his works. Endimion. Campaspe. Sapho and Phao. Gallathea. Notes
“It is good we have variation of colors to make this world more colorful and beautiful. We can learn to appreciate the variations within ourselves, then accept and enjoy all the various colorations making me and you, uniquely different and similar, making this globe glows beautifully colorful as intended to be.”
Source: You and the Heart: Poems
“It is good when you score lots of goals, but it is hard.”
“It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?”
Source: The Analects of Confucius
“It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.”
“It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.”
“It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.”
“It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.”
Source: Life Together
“It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.”
Source: Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate
“It is gracious to overlook and offence.”
“It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.”
Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
“It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.”
“It is great folly to disappoint persevering hope.”
Source: La La Mermaid: Family-Friendly Underwater Cozy Fantasy for Young Adults and Kids
“It is great folly to offend many if you only want to insult one man”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”
“It is great fun dying in the United States of America. It is great fun first of all for the undertakers who make a wonderful living out of it but also for the deceased who suddenly becomes the centre of attention and fuss.”
Source: How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained
“It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant.”
“It is great joy to love and be loved.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.”
“It is great that even before we become enlightened or generate any lam-rim realizations we are able to offer incredible benefit to others. The person who does this is a very fortunate person and should rejoice very often.”
“It is great that soccer can unite people for one day. It is something politics has often tried, and we were able to do it today. All people became brothers.”
“It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.”
“It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.”
“It is great to be a part of big-budget movies, but it is harder to feel like you are contributing, in the sense that it has such big machinery behind it.”
“It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.”
“It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.”
Source: Candles in the Dark: Letters of Hope and Encouragement
“It is great to be free physically, but it is greater to be free mentally.”
“It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.”
“It is great to be social. But the one who cannot enjoy his own company can never enjoy someone else's.”
Source: Emaan-The power of change within
“It is great to celebrate birthday, but you know what is the greatest?, is to remember our mother who sacrified to gave us birth”
“It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.”
“It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.”
Source: The Letters of John Addington Symonds: 1869-1884
“It is great to have direct, unfiltered, interaction with your fans on Twitter and FaceBook, or whatever. I am not totally convinced that it has revolutionized the sales model. Its not completely apparent to me that it is easier to sell music. Obviously, there is a possibility of smaller bands, having their music listened to, but I am not sure to what degree it actually happens. Just because it can happen, doesn't mean it does.”
“It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.”
“It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.”
“It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.”
“It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.”
“It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.”
Source: The collected works of Saint John of the Cross
“It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.”
“It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.”
Source: The Awakening
“It is greatly anticipated that in heaven there will be time to reread every book.”
“It is greed that makes us human as it could be for good or bad.”
Source: HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good
“It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.”
“It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.”
Source: Les Misérables
“It is grievous to be caught.”
“It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.”