Great Ones Quotes - Page 2

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People, Pay, Pleasure

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Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.

Luc de Clapiers

Christian, Heart, Men

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Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead, sitting there forever, frozen. So, I'm not a great one for these modernist, post modernist, post colonial labels. I think they serve certain purpose. You do need some kind of sign post here and there, but it can also become an end in itself.

Chinua Achebe

Thinking, Forever, Here And There

Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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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 have done a lot of great ones.

Patti Page

Redneck, Actors, Done

Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. November 29, 2005.

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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: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace

Paramahansa Yogananda

Peace, Practice, Discipline

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What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

William Shakespeare

Memorable, Dignity

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Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Eric S. Raymond

Writing, Reuse, Programming

Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.24, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.

Alice von Hildebrand

Faith, Teacher, Jobs

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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 great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life? What would be the value of the scriptures? There would be no justice whatsoever if this present existence is all there is to each individual life. What of those souls who lived only a few years, or lived in blind or crippled bodies?

Paramahansa Yogananda

Death, Lying, Years

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Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a small kingdom humbles itself before a great kingdom, it shall win over that great kingdom. Thus the one humbles itself in order to attain, the other attains because it is humble. If the great kingdom has no further desire than to bring men together and to nourish them, the small kingdom will have no further desire than to enter the service of the other. But in order that both may have their desire, the great one must learn humility.

Laozi

Humble, Humility, Winning

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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Suzanne Curchod

Appreciation, Greatness, Self

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There is a thought in your mind right now. The longer you hold on to it, the more you dwell upon it, the more life you give to that thought. Give it enough life, and it will become real. So make sure the thought is indeed a great one.

Ralph Marston

Life, Motivational, Real

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I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

Ana Gasteyer

Thinking, Connections, Actresses

"‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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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 Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.

Ronald Reagan

Country, Communication, Years

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. May 17, 1981.

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Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

Seneca the Younger

Love, Sorrow, Speak

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Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mean, Greatness, Innocence

Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.39, Vintage

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To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Art, Moments, Wells

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My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.

George R. R. Martin

Hero, Fighting, Winning

Interview with George R. R. Martin and all the Wild Cards contributors from BUSTED FLUSH, fantasyhotlist.blogspot.ru. December 10, 2008.

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Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base. ’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.

William Shakespeare

Destiny, Years, Black

William Shakespeare (2000). “Othello”, p.140, Heinemann

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The truth is that Ron is my hero. He's always there for his friends - sometimes belligerently, but there nevertheless. He's also the comic relief in stressful situations; the funny guy with a great one-liner. And no matter how scared he may be, he will put aside his fears to support and protect the people he loves. To me, that represents true courage.

Rupert Grint

Hero, Stressful Situations, People

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically.

Mario Batali

Denver, Indianapolis, Versus

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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 and kindness, they have left some footprints for us to follow. So, in the same way that they wish for us, we wish that all beings everywhere, including ourselves, be safe, be happy, have good health, and enough to eat. And may we all live at ease of heart with whatever comes to us in life.

Krishna Das

Kindness, Heart, Wish

FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Jun 19, 2015

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'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

Spark Matsunaga

Greatness, Men, Good Man

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The great ones don't come cheap.

Mike Holmgren

Football, Nfl, Inspiring Football

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If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

James C. Collins

Mean, Power, Greatness

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