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"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics." Newt Gingrich 3.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.9000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rate this Quote
"The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime." Emma Goldman Rate this Quote
"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement ... in relations between the two great nations on earth." Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Rate this Quote
"I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day." William Gordon 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence." John B. Gough 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled." Baltasar Gracian 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless." William Franklin "Billy" Graham 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe." Harry Gray 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?" Bette Greene 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before." Colin Greenwood 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is a difference between Moses and Paul. Moses was the great Law-giver to the nation of Israel, while Paul is the great dispenser of Grace to the Church, the Body of Christ." Henry Grube 3.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Life goes through changes so fast, you think your life is great, than one of your best friends dies. Then you think you found someone you truly love, only to figure out, she doesn't love you back. You cry and cry and cry, but nothing changes. You realize, that you must accept things for what they are, and what they have made you become.Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes, you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There's always tomorrow." Adam R. Gwizdala 4.8387 average rating Rate this Quote
"Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There is always tomorrow." Adam R. Gwizdala 4.6154 average rating Rate this Quote
"He is great enough that is his own master." Joseph Hall 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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