Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it's really easy to look at someone else's life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
I am the herald of the Great King.
Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.
Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Great souls suffer in silence.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Don't be humble... you're not that great.
You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.
People see police officers and think they're such bad people. We have some who can be some bad people. But we have some great ones out there, that are here to protect us.
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.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
Great things are won by great dangers.
I just think I'm blessed. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I have a great grandmother that passed away at 104 and two grandparents that passed away at 97 and 95, and they never worried about protein. They just enjoyed life, and that's what I'm doing.
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.