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Slender Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Slender Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

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

Related topics: Wisdom Positive

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu PHOTO

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.


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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

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

 

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau

These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

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

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

Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans

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

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

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

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

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

Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda

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

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

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

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson


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