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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Muhammad Ali
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
Cyrano de Bergerac
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Sigmund Freud
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Chanakya
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother Teresa
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.
Helen Keller
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. Monson
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
Mitt Romney
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
Sallust
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
David Hume
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
Bryant H. McGill
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
Don't be humble... you're not that great.
Golda Meir
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
Joe Paterno
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
John F. Kennedy
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
Huey Newton
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
Homer
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. Maxwell
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jim Carrey
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Steve Jobs
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
Emmanuel Teney
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
John Ruskin
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon
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
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill
Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates
All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
Gabriel Byrne
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Jean Ingelow
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Swami Vivekananda
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
William Bartram
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
William Glasser
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
John Wooden
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny Depp
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs
A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Samuel Richardson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
Allen Boyd
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma Gandhi
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Leslie Caron
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
John F. Kennedy
Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
Mitch Hedberg
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
P. J. O'Rourke
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Steven Wright
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis
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
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
Jose Rizal
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Nelson Mandela
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
Abdul Kalam
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Billy Graham
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward de Bono
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Helen Keller
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
Paracelsus
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
Abdul Kalam
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Spurgeon
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry A. Kissinger
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman
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.
Frederick Douglass
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Robert Benchley
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Leon Trotsky
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
Barack Obama
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Morihei Ueshiba
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Martin Luther
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Jodie Foster
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H. L. Mencken
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao Tzu
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Emma Goldman
Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
Jan Peter Balkenende
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln
Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.
Jonathan Brown
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden
All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.
Patti LaBelle
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane Austen
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Coretta Scott King
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
Steve Jobs
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Chuck Palahniuk
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
Bo Bennett
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Logan P. Smith
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
Milton Friedman
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
Muhammad Ali
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
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
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda
He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin Powell
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
B. R. Ambedkar
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
Jim Harrison
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Abdul Kalam
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney J. Harris
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Yousuf Karsh
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Charlie Chaplin
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Peace Pilgrim
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Edward Moore
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Cat Stevens
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Orison Swett Marden
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Albert Einstein
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
Tom Hanks
To do a great right do a little wrong.
William Shakespeare
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Pat Riley
A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
Barbara Corcoran
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
James Dean
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Andrew Jackson
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Emmet Fox
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Erich Fromm
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Marcel Proust
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
Angelina Jolie
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
Dick Gregory
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Ellen G. White
You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
Stevie Nicks
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu
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.
Henry Ford
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin Coolidge
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George Washington
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Henry Van Dyke
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mahatma Gandhi
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Niels Bohr
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo
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.
Henry Miller
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Arthur Schopenhauer
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Hillary Clinton
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.
Charles Stanley
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
Beau Bridges
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
E. W. Howe
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
Emma Goldman
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
Plato
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John Ruskin
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Lee Iacocca
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Winston Churchill
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Lord Chesterfield
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Elbert Hubbard
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
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
Barbara Corcoran
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
Joel Osteen
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
Henry Rollins
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S. Truman
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. Truman
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Richard M. Nixon
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.
Kip Winger
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
Paulo Coelho
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor Hugo
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Cather
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Sigmund Freud
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
John Ruskin
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Andrew Jackson
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Mignon McLaughlin
There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.
Matthew Perry
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen
The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
Swami Sivananda
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Being is the great explainer.
Henry David Thoreau
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
Dwight L. Moody
To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.
Fred Durst
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
Cate Blanchett
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Peace Pilgrim
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Albert Pike
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
Julia Roberts
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
Henry Louis Gates
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens
A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
Jeff Bridges
I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
Imelda Marcos
The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.
Louis Farrakhan
A great fortune is a great slavery.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Andrew Carnegie
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Sun Tzu
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover
I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Jean Genet
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
Henry Rollins
Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
Aeschylus
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato
An index is a great leveller.
George Bernard Shaw
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
Ann Landers
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
Orison Swett Marden
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
William Butler Yeats
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells
Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
Rush Limbaugh
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.
Henry Louis Gates
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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.
George Orwell
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Samuel Johnson
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S. Truman
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.
John Hoeven
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
Ambrose Bierce
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling
I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
Madeleine Albright
Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
Robin Hayes
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.
Christopher Walken
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
Emma Goldman
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway
It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.
Alanis Morissette
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas Carlyle
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
James Madison
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
Demetri Martin
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
Bryant H. McGill
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver Goldsmith
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
Rudy Giuliani
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Soren Kierkegaard
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Voltaire
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.
Tom Cruise
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing
The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!
Peter Hook
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
John Boehner
My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
Danica Patrick
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
Michael Bloomberg
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
Frida Kahlo
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Lao Tzu
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman
What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.
Mehmet Oz
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Charles R. Swindoll
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
Benito Mussolini
I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
Ernie Harwell
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
Ross Perot
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
Richard Rogers
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Henry Rollins
I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
Julie Walters
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Jean Rostand
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry David Thoreau
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
Robert Fulghum
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster Fuller
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
Noam Chomsky
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Orison Swett Marden
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
Louis C. K.
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Louis Kahn
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.
Hypatia
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel Adams
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
Mason Cooley
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Mason Cooley
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
Danica McKellar
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.
Jeff Foxworthy
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
Frank Lloyd Wright
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Lee Iacocca
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