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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
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Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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.
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
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
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
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Those who are highly evolved,
maintain an undiscriminating perception.
Seeing everything, labeling nothing,
they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.
Thus they are supported by it.
- Lao Tzu
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
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
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
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
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
If something is important to you,
attend to it immediately, and regularly.
If something is not really important to you,
that's great also -
just scratch it off your to-do list forever,
and never worry about it again.
Choose how you invest your time, and honor your choices.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Cheer for endings - whether goals have been met or not -
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thoughts,
and to begin great new projects.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
Almost nothing you worry about today
will matter in a hundred years.
Think carefully about what you can focus on today.
Choose tasks that will actually make a positive difference
to your great-grandchildren.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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