Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal. – Samuel Richardson
Being is the great explainer. – Henry David Thoreau
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now. – William Glasser
Life in abundance comes only through great love. – Elbert Hubbard
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? – Walt Whitman
I always entertain great hopes. – Robert Frost
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches. – Henry David Thoreau
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. – George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. – George Bernard Shaw
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. – Blaise Pascal
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. – Theodore Roosevelt
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. – Robert Frost
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James
An index is a great leveller. – George Bernard Shaw
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. – Theodore Roosevelt
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. – Honore de Balzac
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace. – Elbert Hubbard
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. – Elbert Hubbard
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
