Great Person Quotes

• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Partying for the Planet and Dancing With God (at Burning Man)" by Leah Lamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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• If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Success, Courage

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• The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivation, Doe

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• Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Character, People

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Strong, Character, Able

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1978). “The way to happiness: the eternal quest of mankind”, Prentice Hall

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• Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

  Jeff Olson

  Fate, Exercise, Greatness

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.133, Greenleaf Book Group

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• A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life And Love, Really Great, Feels

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• Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Achieve Greatness

  "Frondes Agrestes, Readings in 'Modern Painters' Chosen at Her Pleasures".

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• The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

  William Carlos Williams

  Business, Stress, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.188, New Directions Publishing

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• Avery worries about her, too, so Lissa's in good hands. Avery's pretty amazing." I gave him a scathing look. "Amazing? Do you like her or something?" I hadn't forgotten Avery's comment about leaving the door unlocked for him. "Of course I like her. She's a great person." "No, I mean like. Not like." "Oh, I see," he said, rolling his eyes. "We're dealing with elementary school definitions of 'like'.

  Richelle Mead

  School, Mean, Eye

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• A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greatness, Small Person, Position

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• Recently I donated money to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Foundation in Louisville. I regard that as a kind of payback. He smoothed the way for us. He wasn’t just a great person who had conviction, but made the sport of boxing great. He was the first superstar, he made our stock rise. Without him we wouldn’t have earned so much. Americans from every walk of life have contributed to the foundation: Bill Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt. Unfortunately I was the only American athlete to make a donation. There’s not enough respect in our business.

  Lennox Lewis

  Sports, Athlete, Boxing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Greatness, Mind, Generations

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• We live in a crazy time, and parents are very worried about their children's futures. They're getting all kinds of messages about children having to score at the top level on some test. The irony is, kids could score at the top and still not succeed at finding great employment or becoming a great person.

  Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

  Children, Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• You might be anything. You might be having any organization, you might be having any position in life, you might be any great personality, makes no difference to God. What is important is that: are you seeking?

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Loving Someone, Might, Bigger

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall”, p.182, Faber & Faber

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• A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fashion, Style, Triumph

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• Shannon and all of us started the band so it just felt really natural, and then she quit, and then she came back, and then she quit again. I love working with her and would do it again, but that's just not in the cards. And Josh is a great person to play with - he can play any instrument. He's really inspiring and positive. It was great. It was meant to be temporary.

  Theresa Wayman

  Play, Cards, Band

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• It's very easy for me to feel sympathy for people who are messed up. It's not that I'm a pseudo-saint or a great person. I had a lot of trouble with drugs and alcohol when I was younger, and I know how easy it can be to mess up the rest of your life. One bad turn, one bad night, one big mistake, and everything is screwed up. Or maybe you were just born in the wrong house and raised in a bad way. I guess I can understand.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Mistake, Night, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

  Joe Murray

  Art, Personality, Pieces

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• Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Character, Suffering, Peculiar

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.75

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• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.

  James Allen

  Strong, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Essentials, Rewards, Relation

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