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Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Related topics: Wisdom
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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