I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
—Henry David Thoreau
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
—Charles Dickens
“God, you are not only the greatest source of joy but you are all our joy.”
Uncertainty is greater than you think, so widen your estimating ranges.
—Peter R. Rose
The more powerful it grows, the greater the need for humility.
—Laozi
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
—Voltaire
The more you feel the urge to speak, the greater the risk that you’ll say something stupid.
—Leo Tolstoy
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.
—Michelangelo
Never was the harvest greater; never were the labourers fewer.
—George Whitefield
“This is a great evidence of the writing of the law upon the heart, when holiness becomes a pleasure, and sin becomes a sorrow.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
—Michelangelo
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
—Henry David Thoreau
The great shepherd shall furnish you with food enough, and to spare. Give of your loaves, and you shall take up of the fragments that remain.
—George Whitefield
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
—Voltaire
When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.
—Laozi
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
—Henry Ford
I don’t remember who exactly, but some deep heart expert said that the surest measurement of friendship is money. And his statement is fair. A true, true friendship that is only expressed in critical, difficult cases, and even it demands this cold yardstick. The most lively, animated language of friendship is money. And the greater the need, the more sincere the friendship, driving away this hungry witch.
—Taras Shevchenko
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
—Charles Dickens
With respect to the death of Christ, there is a great difference betwixt one man and another; he laid down his life for the sheep, he prayed for them, and not for the world.
—John Flavel
I have great respect for a man who can stand up for what he believes is right against all the world. He who can stand alone is a hero.
—D. L. Moody
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal – at cards.
—Nikolai Gogol
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
—Ernest Hemingway
“This great blessing of pardoned sin is always connected with the renewal of the heart. It is not given because of the change of heart, but it is always given with the change of heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.
—Vincent Van Gogh
“It seems to me a blessed privilege for us to be permitted to love one so great as God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
—Thomas Aquinas