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 CosbyI like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest HemingwayAbsence 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 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.
ConfuciusThe greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah WinfreyI 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 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 ReaganWhatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
Maya AngelouThe 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 StevensonAnybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar WildeIn this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
Mother TeresaThe 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 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 TeresaThe infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
VoltaireOne of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl SandburgGreat 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 JohnsonIf time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin FranklinThe 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 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 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 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 DeppGreat 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 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 ChopraHeroes 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 NietzscheIn Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes it is a great relief.
John BarrymoreThe 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 JoubertIt takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. RowlingOnly great minds can afford a simple style.
StendhalAsk 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 RandI 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 LawrenceA great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI 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 BonaparteThe greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund BurkeTo 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 LincolnI 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 TagoreAll philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel ButlerIt is strange that the years teach us patience, that the shorter our time the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth TaylorHe 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.
AristotleAmerica is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
George W. BushThe 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.
AristotleBecause 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 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.
BuddhaMost people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert EinsteinI 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 AugustineMan becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma GandhiAs 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 GandhiEvery 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
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 LincolnGreat 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 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 SenecaIt's bleak, because I can't - many of us can't - hear her sweet voice, but it's great because she did live and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.
Maya AngelouAs 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 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.Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
AristotleThe 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.
AristotleUnless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.
Oprah WinfreyHealth 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 StoneThe 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 AustenI suggest that the great art belongs to all people all the time - that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
Maya AngelouThere 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 ShatnerGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John RuskinI 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 LincolnPrepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TecumsehUntil 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 KellerIn counsel it is good to see dangers, but in execution not to see them unless they be very great.
Francis BaconMy 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 AngelouThere is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
AeschylusA lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.
Taylor Swift'Tis not where we lie but whence we fell, the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la BarcaAll great achievements require time.
Maya AngelouInstead 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 KellerNo sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.
Thomas CarlyleThe great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Amelia BarrThe greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael JacksonAdvertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.
Winston ChurchillOne of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Washington IrvingA learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin FranklinHealth 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.
BuddhaTrust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
AristotleIf 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'RourkeSelf-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel JohnsonThe 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 RuskinWe have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.
Mother TeresaEntire 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.
PlatoYou are that vast thing that you see far far off with great telescopes.
Alan WattsHave 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 BarcaTechnology 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 the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. RowlingTo conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
BuddhaTake time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin FranklinThink like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah WinfreyOf 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 CoelhoWe 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 MadisonHope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Baltasar GracianHis success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
BuddhaKeep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil GibranNeither 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 RomneyThe key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
Oprah WinfreyMost people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin FranklinIt'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 RochefoucauldIf you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
Mother TeresaNone 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 TeresaIt 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 FranklinThe lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
Kahlil GibranFor 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 StevensonAttention 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 ReaganFor those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
Isaac Bashevis SingerHuman felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin FranklinThe greater the state the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo TolstoyTruly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
Muhammad AliThe 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 SenecaDeath is the only pure beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
David Herbert LawrenceHumor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark TwainMy mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark TwainAmerica's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
John W. GardnerGreat 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 BryantAbsolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Woodrow WilsonNo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria RilkeThere is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric HofferI also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
William ShatnerWe do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich NietzscheI 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 SchwarzeneggerNurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin DisraeliCivil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
AristotleA 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 GandhiEvery great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Niels BohrIt 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 RochefoucauldThere 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 EliotA man may conquer a million men in battle, but one who conquers himself is indeed the greatest of conquerors.
BuddhaWe take great pains to persuade other that we are happy, than in to think so ourselves.
ConfuciusI have great faith in fools, self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan PoeThe bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaGreat 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 ReaganLaws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark TwainThe great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
David Herbert LawrenceThe fact that you are willing to say "I do not understand and it is fine " is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Wayne DyerNo one knows whether death which people fear to be the greatest evil may not be the greatest good.
PlatoNature 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.
EuripidesMan's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick DouglassYour 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