As 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.
BuddhaThe 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 AustenThere 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 RuskinPrepare 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 BaconThere 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 CarlyleAdvertising 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.
AristotleSelf-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 EllisI always entertain great hopes.
Robert FrostThe reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark TwainTechnology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.
Niels BohrTo the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. RowlingTo conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
BuddhaThink 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 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 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 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 SwiftAll 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 TolstoyThe 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 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 BryantNo 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 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 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.
AristotleNon-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 BohrDesire 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 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 SenecaMy 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.
Maya AngelouGreat 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 JungA 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 LawrenceFew will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events and in the total, of all those acts, will be written the history of this generation.
Robert KennedyNo one knows whether death which people fear to be the greatest evil may not be the greatest good.
PlatoThe 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 CouplandMan's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick DouglassLand and sea weakness and decline are great separators but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John KeatsNo 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 RochefoucauldUnconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. KennedyThere never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert FrostOur greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience good health occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas JeffersonI 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 AddisonIn Britain like most of the developed world stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.
Stephen HawkingYour 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 CarreyWisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles SpurgeonI think everybody should have a great Wonderbra. There's so many ways to enhance them everybody does it.
Christina AguileraIt is not enough to have great qualities, We should also have the management of them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOne of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOne is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks and therefore the greater the playwright the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
Vivien LeighI call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald ReaganGreat men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Charles DickensThough men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements yet these are in truth very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI've often said the only thing standing between me and greatness is me
Woody AllenWhat is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men but they do not form a class.
Alexis de TocquevilleO see what a wonder it is! The doings of the great are strange: they treat wealth as light as a straw yet when they obtain it they bend under its weight.
ChanakyaThe tourture we desire is the greatest of all.
Lord ByronCross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Steven Wright(Through the night) a great many kinds of birds perch on a tree, but in the morning they fly in all the ten directions. Why should we lament for that?
ChanakyaThere are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors rickshaw drivers and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Hillary ClintonI had some shots that I felt like I should've made, I just didn't make them. I'm not going to shoot the ball great every night.
Kobe BryantA well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo MachiavelliGoing out and playing football or baseball with the boys when I was a tomboy was a great way to learn about winning and losing and most girls didn't have that experience.
Hillary ClintonFortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius CaesarThe reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.
Steve JobsShow me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress and you've seen the devil.
W. C. FieldsThe figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification such as sects and cults are founded on but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert FrostThe least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl JungThe greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Elbert HubbardMothers of those days were women of great piety and noble character.They practiced virtue and set an example to the children! only from the wombs of such noble women were born sons of high character!
Sai BabaWant of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money for that is the miser's passion not the thief s.
William BlakeGood temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
William HazlittAir power can either paralyze the enemy's military action, or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources, far greater that what we need in the attack.
Winston ChurchillMy message especially to young people is to have courage to think differently courage to invent to travel the unexplored path courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
Abdul KalamThere is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Marlene DietrichGreat nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster FullerIt brings no glory to man if he is tied helplessly to the wheel of birth and death. His glory and greatness consist in disentangling himself from that revolving wheel.
Sai BabaThe difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas CarlyleI abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Thomas JeffersonAll great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert CamusIf we hope for what we are not likely to possess we act and think in vain and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Joseph AddisonWe've been joking with him because he's gotten extremely close in a bunch of games. He's in a great rhythm. He knows where shots are coming from he knows where the assists are coming from how to set the table. It's fun to watch.
Kobe BryantIf calculus or algebra were required to be a great investor I'd have to go back to delivering newspapers.
Warren BuffettI'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill GatesTo live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin CoolidgeWe had a great run. Three rings. I think people should leave it the hell alone and move on. ... I understand it's interesting but we also have an interesting game. The game itself tomorrow is interesting.
Kobe BryantGreat minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington IrvingNo man was ever great by imitation.
Samuel JohnsonHistory shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas CarlyleWhat's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Andy WarholTension is the great integrity.
R. Buckminster FullerMusic the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.
Joseph AddisonThe great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThere is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas CarlyleOf great riches there is no real use except in the distribution, the rest is but conceit
Francis BaconOnly through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Chuck PalahniukWhat is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
James MadisonThe greatest beauty aid for women is virtue.
Sai BabaThe way of the Creative works through change and transformation so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander PopePeople who know little are usually great talkers while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
MichelangeloThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.
PlatoTo prefer evil to good is not in human nature, and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
PlatoNext to enjoying ourselves the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves or more generally in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand RussellIn every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
Francis BaconA great city whose image dwells in the memory of man is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest, Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem, and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world Art.
Benjamin DisraeliThere be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil busy workshops easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place
Francis BaconThe game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
Michael JordanLife is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire