Great Ones Quotes
92 quotes by 68 authors
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
— Lord Chesterfield
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All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.
— Raul Lopez
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.
— Ernest Hemingway
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The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain…
— Ronald Reagan
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I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could…
— Patti Page
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Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say:…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The great ones don't come cheap.
— Mike Holmgren
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What the great ones do, the less will prattle of
— William Shakespeare
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There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
— Clifton Fadiman
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As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift…
— Natalia Ginzburg
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If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.
— Seneca the Younger
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If we know anything about a path at all, it's only because of the Great ones that have gone before us. Out of their love…
— Krishna Das
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Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)
— Eric S. Raymond
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I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great…
— Wes Anderson
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On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition -…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.
— Benjamin Franklin
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