Quotes of: Greatness Keyword

Above all marriage is a new task and a new seriousness—a new challenge and a question regarding the strength and kindness of each participant and a new great danger for both.

Letters on Life

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Les Misérables

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.

The Luminaries

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

The Little Prince

And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.

The Last Song

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

Lavinia

The brain is the coast of many great monuments. Your ability to exploit the power of your brain is what makes you a leader. Leadership emerges from a positive mindset!

Leaders' Watchwords

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself; it’s great when lived for others. The true means of happiness is to lose your mind by thinking for others!

Leaders' Watchwords

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America

Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The parties concerned met on the great occasion of the proposal. If this were refused, a state of war was declared.

Moments of Being

Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Most people hate successful people for their small little faults rather than appreciating them for their great strengths.

The Secret Red Book of Leadership

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

Vimes thought for a moment and said, 'Well, dear, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man with a lot of wood must be in want of a wife who can handle a great big--

Snuff

A wave of Time hangs motionless on this particular shore. I notice a tree, arsenical grey in the light, or the slow Wheel of the stars, the Great Bear glittering colder than snow, And remember there was something else I was hoping for.

Selected Poems

Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery.

Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

He’s a great guy. He’d give you the shirt off his back if you asked. In fact, I’m wearing his shirt now, and I’m staring at his nipples.


Sleepwalking is restercise

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Self Reliance

A karate black belt would make a great blindfold on a kidnap victim, after you karate chop them into submission.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal.

Sense and Sensibility