The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma GandhiI like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest HemingwayLife is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen KellerAll the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston ChurchillThe greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. HumphreyThe greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah WinfreyHalf a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin FranklinThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria RilkeName the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark TwainA great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe 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.
Ronald ReaganThe greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.
Hubert H. HumphreyI travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis StevensonThe greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor HugoThe Answer to the Great Question Of.....Life the Universe and Everything.....(is) Forty-two.
Douglas AdamsI can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
Mother TeresaKeep 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.
Mark TwainThe poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.
Mother TeresaThe infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
VoltaireOne of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl SandburgI don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Thomas CarlyleMen cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune
AristotlePersonal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction
AristotleDo not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert EinsteinLike all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin DisraeliThe 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 ButlerIf 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 JohnsonIf time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin FranklinI know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
Dr. SeussMemory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
Gilbert ParkerJudge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.
Gustave FlaubertYou can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da VinciFrance 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 DeppEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John DeweyYou are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
Wayne DyerI want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
Stephen HawkingToleration is the greatest gift of the mind, it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen KellerYes, in all my research the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.
Deepak ChopraIt takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. RowlingAsk yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn RandThat which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it.
AristotleI 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 KellerYou ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Albert EinsteinTo my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.
Marcus AureliusSir 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.
Abraham LincolnAll great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John RuskinMy great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham LincolnAll the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel JohnsonThe 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 LincolnBecause of its tremendous solemnity, death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
Soren KierkegaardI always knew I was destined for greatness.
Oprah WinfreyA great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor HugoBeauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint AugustineFor pleasures past I do not grieve nor perils gathering near, My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord ByronThe sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell HolmesI consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.
BuddhaSome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William ShakespeareI believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John RuskinDo 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 AugustineDuring the first period of a man's life, the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Soren KierkegaardThe 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 TagoreI am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark TwainThe greatest prayer is patience
BuddhaWe come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath TagoreThe highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham LincolnFame is the inheritance, not of the dead but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William HazlittIt 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 SenecaThe man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of soon living beneath them, or as the Italian proverb says "The man that lives by hope will die by despair".
Joseph AddisonYou will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
AristotleThe basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
William ShatnerGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus'Tis not where we lie but whence we fell, the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la BarcaDeny the passport, throw it away and make a great decision that you will not leave this shore until and unless you have liberated all the human beings.
BuddhaThe greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
AristotleSelf-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel JohnsonHave 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 HugoI always entertain great hopes.
Robert FrostThe reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark TwainWhat is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough, for all life is a dream and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la BarcaTo conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
BuddhaHis success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
BuddhaMost people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin FranklinIt is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness, and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin FranklinSilence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNot in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness only in his actions, in his life.
Herman HesseI never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Jonathan SwiftAll great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald ReaganThe great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter, because some new idea has hit me.
Ray BradburyThe first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaHumor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark TwainGreat perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor HugoNo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria RilkeI am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerSmall debts are like small shot, they are rattling on every side and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon, of loud noise but little danger.
Samuel JohnsonHowever greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA man may conquer a million men in battle, but one who conquers himself is indeed the greatest of conquerors.
BuddhaThe bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaEating meat destroys the attitude of great compassion.
BuddhaWe're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Ronald ReaganThe greatest pleasure of life is love.
EuripidesNo truly great person ever thought themselves so.
William HazlittTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert FrostI have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry David ThoreauA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph AddisonYour 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 JobsThere's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
Clint EastwoodGreat art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
Edward HopperBehind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jim Carrey