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There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
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Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
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.
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
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
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
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
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
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
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
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
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
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
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
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
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
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
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
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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