Quotes about Great
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Time flies. Especially when you have a great time, when you're winning and the team is playing great.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
All great leaders choose great advisors, people they really trust for their governance.
I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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