Best Truly Great Quotations
131 Truly Great quotes by 107 unique authors
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Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.
— Alan Watts
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
— Joseph Addison
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Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.
— Walt Disney
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In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.
— Joe Rogan
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[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose…
— Karl Marx
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great…
— Benjamin Franklin
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
— Robert Frost
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Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of…
— Henry Louis Gates
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen…
— Robertson Davies
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
— William Hazlitt
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children…
— Michael Morpurgo
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.
— Suze Orman
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I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his…
— John Ruskin
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
— John Ruskin
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Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.
— Martin Filler
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the…
— James Dean
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The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.
— Mortimer Adler
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Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you…
— Mark Helprin
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Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
— O. Henry
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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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