The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma GandhiIn 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 RochefoucauldLove is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. HeinleinThere 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 GandhiLittle minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Washington IrvingThe greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. HumphreyOur greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
ConfuciusI have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr....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 FranklinName the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark TwainOur greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. EdisonI 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 gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian TracyThe 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.
AristotleThat some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham LincolnI 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 TeresaThe infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
VoltaireGreat 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 CarlyleMen 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
AristotleLike 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. 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 RuskinMemory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
Gilbert ParkerIf 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 BurkeThe 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 EmersonEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John DeweyI 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 KellerHeroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage, the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich NietzscheThe Bible remained for me a book of books still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Joseph JoubertOnly great minds can afford a simple style.
StendhalLove's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Barbara de AngelisAsk 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.
AristotleA great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Francois de La RochefoucauldEnthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund BurkeSir 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 LincolnYour 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.
ConfuciusGreat hopes make great men.
Thomas FullerAll 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 JohnsonIn revolutions the occasions may be trifling, but great interest are at stake.
AristotleThe 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 reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Mason CooleyNo great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
AristotleA 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 HolmesGreat men, or men of great gifts, you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI 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.
BuddhaI believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John RuskinNo great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar WildeDo 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 AugustineThe 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 TwainEvery great person is always being helped by everybody, for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John RuskinThe greatest prayer is patience
BuddhaGreat souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPreachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Dr. SeussThe great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness, as to earn peace and self-respect.
Thomas HuxleyFame 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 HazlittThe great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George SantayanaThe hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The 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 AddisonHealth is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
BuddhaEvery 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 StoneThere is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
William ShatnerIn general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John RuskinPrepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TecumsehTechnology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.
Niels BohrIt is man that makes truth great. not truth that makes man great.
ConfuciusToo 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 RochefoucauldYour 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