In order to succeed your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill CosbyAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya AngelouLife is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen KellerAll 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.
MoliereAll the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston ChurchillI believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mahatma GandhiOur greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
Confucius...for the lesser evil is reckoned a good, in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen, than the greater...
AristotleHalf a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin FranklinThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria RilkeA 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 ReaganI travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis StevensonAnybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar WildeThe greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor HugoLife is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.
AristotleI 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 TwainStrange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable perhaps when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty was gone.
AristotleOne can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
Mahatma GandhiThe poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.
Mother TeresaAt the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in."
Mother TeresaGreat men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Thomas CarlyleThe 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 worth-while to live.
AristotleMen cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune
AristotleThe great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston ChurchillPersonal 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 EinsteinA retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert HubbardLike 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 JohnsonThe great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
David Herbert LawrenceI know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
Dr. SeussGreat nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John RuskinIf many years were added to my life I would give fifty to the study of the Book of Changes and might thereby manage to avoid great mistakes.
ConfuciusThere 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 RochefoucauldBut what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils, for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.
Edmund BurkeJudge 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 FlaubertThe greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
BuddhaYou can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da VinciGreat hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou 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 KellerI have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Orson WellesYes, in all my research the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.
Deepak ChopraThe essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich NietzscheIn Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes it is a great relief.
John BarrymoreOnly great minds can afford a simple style.
StendhalLove's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Barbara de AngelisI haven't had that one great love which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.
Taylor SwiftThat which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it.
AristotleThe greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Arthur SchopenhauerMy father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim ValvanoThe greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
HoraceMy great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
David Herbert LawrenceI 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 KellerEnthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Albert EinsteinI don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation, if the forces of history are running in another direction.
Richard M. NixonGreat 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 BonaparteTo 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 AureliusI regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar WildeYour idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath TagoreHe who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
ConfuciusAll 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 LincolnA grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force, as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Honore de BalzacHealthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have
Winston ChurchillAll 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 LincolnThe moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar WildeA great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor HugoI 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.
BuddhaNo great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar WildeAs a child of God I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Abdul KalamThe 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 TwainOnly he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma GandhiThe highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham LincolnGreat souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFame 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 HazlittAs human beings our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma GandhiThe 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 AddisonThe post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
Jane AustenGratitude 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 BarcaThe greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael JacksonHealth is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao TzuDeny 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 JohnsonEntire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil and is far from being the greatest of all, too much cleverness and too much learning accompanied with ill bringing-up are far more fatal.
PlatoHave 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 HugoSelf-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
Albert EllisEvery 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 LincolnMy books are like water, those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark TwainI 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 BarcaGod's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Desmond TutuTechnology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.
Niels BohrMemory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
Andre MauroisTo conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
BuddhaWe do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Jane AustenIn Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
James MadisonNeither 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 RussellSometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.
Mitt RomneyIt's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.
Muhammad AliEverything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
Bob MarleyIf it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La RochefoucauldNone of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
Mother TeresaFor 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 StevensonBeing 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.
Mother TeresaAttention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
PlatoI distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. ForsterOf all possible debauches traveling is the greatest that I know, that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
Gustave FlaubertThere is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
AristotleGreatness does not consist in receiving honors but in deserving them.
AristotleSilence 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 have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao TzuI never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Jonathan SwiftNo 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 MillerIn great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be and one must be wrong.
Abraham LincolnAll 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 BradburyHumor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark TwainGreat perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor HugoI think it's great to put our past behind us and just move on. I think it was important to show the fans.
Kobe BryantThere is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric HofferWe do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich NietzscheNurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin DisraeliA little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar WildeNon-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mahatma GandhiDesire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel. Desire is the sole cause of sorrow and distress.
Sai BabaIt is man that makes truth great. not truth that makes man great.
ConfuciusSmall 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 JohnsonThe greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da VinciToo great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHowever 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 RochefoucauldDo not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Wilson MiznerGreat 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 JungIt 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 TzuA book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
Ray BradburyEating meat destroys the attitude of great compassion.
BuddhaOn a long journey of human life faith is the best of companions, it is the best refreshment on the journey, and it is the greatest property.
BuddhaI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Michel de MontaigneI find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
William CongreveWe're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Ronald ReaganThe fact that you are willing to say "I do not understand and it is fine " is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Wayne DyerThe most successful people I've worked with like the Rolling Stones - people of a different kind of legendary caliber - have such great warm energy.
Christina AguileraNature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood bones and hair.
Doug CouplandThe greatest pleasure of life is love.
EuripidesNo truly great person ever thought themselves so.
William HazlittLet architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees, Just give me a home in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
R. Buckminster FullerTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich NietzscheThere 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 AddisonDefense is a definite part of the game and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
John WoodenYour 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 JobsGreat 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 CarreyAction 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