Great quotes
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
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.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
A sense of humour is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
All great achievements require time.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not been able to answer... the great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want?
Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Great companies are built on great products.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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.
I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Life should be great rather than long.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
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.
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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.
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.