Great Ones Quotes

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  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Marine, Men

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. [29]

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• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop

  Witty, Government, Political Will

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only do what your heart tells you.

  Princess Diana

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Ignorance, Perspective

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" edited by Henry Southgate, 1862.

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• Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Giving, Attention

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• A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

  Roald Dahl

  Small Numbers, Life Is, Incidents

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.10, Penguin

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  To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Integrity

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• This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

  Joseph Addison

  Party, Moral, Spirit

  Joseph Addison (1749). “The Spectator”, p.170

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• An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

  Samuel Richardson

  Temptation, Littles, Sanctify

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• The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Matter, Strange

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• They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Matter, Trifling, Incapable

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• We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Littles, Faults

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 327, 1678.

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• Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  May, Faults, Suspicion

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.74, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Order, Faults

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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

  Betrayal, People, Way

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• A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.

  Publilius Syrus

  Enemy, Debt, Loan

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• Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Work, Faults, Neglect

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Order, Generosity

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  Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

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• Once I really maximize my potential-I don't know when that'll be, a year from now, three or four years from now-I think I can be one of the great ones.

  Julius Peppers

  Thinking, Years, Three

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• Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

  George Herbert

  Fire, Kindles

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.331

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• Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Everyday, Littles, Pennies

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 33, 1799.

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