Great Ones Quotes - Page 4

• 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 - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Powerful, Ambition, Generosity

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• One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Defeat, Refrain

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• Hey, it's your birthday ?. Sit back, relax and enjoy it ? you've earned it! Have a Great One.

  Margaret Jones

  Birthday, Relax, Hey

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• Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Forgiveness, Wisdom, Fun

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

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• The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

  Twyla Tharp

  Fundamentals, Granted

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don't, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.

  Brenda Ueland

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

  Jon Gordon

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Jun 05, 2013

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• Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.

  Stuart Weitzman

  Jobs, Men, Looks

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• All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year.

  Simon Sinek

  Years, Organization, Clear

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.173, Penguin

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• If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

  Glenn Frey

  Perfect, Goal, Albums

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• Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one.

  Louise Hay

  Opportunity, Each Day, Power Of Thought

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• All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they were founded show up to the race every day to outdo someone else instead of to outdo themselves. The pursuit, for those who lose sight of WHY they are running the race, is for the medal or to beat someone else.

  Simon Sinek

  Running, Race, Sight

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.224, Penguin

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• Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

  Lee Iacocca

  Organization, Differences, Listening

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• Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Logic, Subjects, Has Beens

  "Methods of Logic". Book by Willard Van Orman Quine, 1950.

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• Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Romantic, Two, Dating

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• You will go one on one with the Great One!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Wrestling, Wwe

  "WWE Monday Night RAW". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1993– ).

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• If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.

  Alex Ferguson

  Motivational, Soccer, Dream

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• The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

  Laozi

  Flower, Taoism, Substance

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• The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.

  Guy Finley

  Motivational, Hard Work, Character

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Dec 11, 2014

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• No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.

  Joe Theismann

  Waiting, Sitting, Matter

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• I'm not a great one for looking back.

  Ian Botham

  Looking Back

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• Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Light, Dumb

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• It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Differences, Finals

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• All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Inspirational, Mother, Intuition

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• Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.

  Billy Graham

  Wisdom, Couple, Two

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