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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
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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
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
Only he can take great resolves who has
indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
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
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- 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
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- 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.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- 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
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- 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
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
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
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
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 ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- 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
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
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
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
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- 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
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
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
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
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're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
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May the world be kind to you,
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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