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"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." Phillips Brooks 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do." Phillips Brooks 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room." (Matthew) Heywood Rate this Quote
"That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect." Jean de La Bruyère 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude." Jean de La Bruyère 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion." William Cullen Bryant 2.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." Pearl Sydenstricker Buck 4.6471 average rating Rate this Quote
"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship." Buddha 4.6400 average rating Rate this Quote
"On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property." Buddha 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error." Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature." Edmund Burke 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top." Robert Burton 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional." George Herbert Walker Bush 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people." George Herbert Walker Bush 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable." Horace Bushnell 2.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." Comte de Bussy-Rabnutin 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious." Samuel Butler Rate this Quote
"There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule." Samuel Butler Rate this Quote
"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity." Herbert Butterfield 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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