You 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 HugoBeing 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 TeresaI have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao TzuFor those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
Isaac Bashevis SingerThe first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere 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 EliotThe bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOn 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.
BuddhaThe 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 LawrenceNo one knows whether death which people fear to be the greatest evil may not be the greatest good.
PlatoUnconditional 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. KennedyYour 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 JobsAction 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 PealeThe tourture we desire is the greatest of all.
Lord ByronThere 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 ClintonWhoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo MachiavelliNo man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being to risk his body to risk his life in a great cause.
Theodore RooseveltThe heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl JungGood temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
William HazlittMy 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 KalamIf calculus or algebra were required to be a great investor I'd have to go back to delivering newspapers.
Warren BuffettWe 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 BryantNo man was ever great by imitation.
Samuel JohnsonTension is the great integrity.
R. Buckminster FullerThere is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas CarlyleIt is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of another.
Winston ChurchillAs it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.
Hillary ClintonMusic is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity and here has its greatest effect on life an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheUnless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett MardenA lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.
Donald TrumpIt is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La RochefoucauldParents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue the art of speaking well rather than doing well, but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster FullerGreat is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at and humbled for his sins.
Thomas FullerAnyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl MarxOne of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous HuxleyWe think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared, for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother TeresaBe great in act as you have been in thought.
Jean PaulHe pattered with his keys at a great rate / And sweated through his apostolic skin: / Of course his perspiration was but ichor / Or some such other spiritual liquor.
Lord ByronThe greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. KennedyIf I could sell 500 million records every time it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager in a very kind of model version of it.
Alanis MorissetteFor a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe begin to see therefore the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon HillWhere the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolo MachiavelliObama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.
Donald TrumpThose that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe Super Bowl isn't for kids I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
Andy RooneyTo conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.
BuddhaSo great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Matthew HenryOne of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Norman Vincent PealeCourage is the greatest of all virtues because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel JohnsonWhen I say that human beings are just gene machines one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
Richard DawkinsI played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
Henny YoungmanThe 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.
PlatoIf there is not the war you don't get the great general, if there is not a great occasion you don't get a great statesman, if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace no one would have known his name.
Theodore RooseveltThe greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Thomas PaineOut of Ireland have we come great hatred little room maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
William Butler YeatsI think their experience kicked in and overwhelmed us a bit tonight ... We kept fighting back and did some great things with our execution. Our inexperience on defense hurt us as they were spreading the floor extremely well and getting good looks at the basket.
Kobe BryantA great fortune is a great slavery.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIn the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
AeschylusI am in love - and my God it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already you are wasting your life.
David Herbert LawrenceI had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.
Winston ChurchillI'm a great lover I'll bet.
Emo PhilipsOur knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Isaac Bashevis SingerPleasant it is when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation, not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
LucretiusIt is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
Og MandinoPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PlatoNo crime is so great as daring to excel.
Winston ChurchillWith only half a lip you kiss, And half of that I ne'er' should miss, A greater boon of worth untold, Wilt grant me? That whole half withhold.
Marcus AureliusPleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains with no part of yours in peril.
LucretiusThe greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Samuel JohnsonIn all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor RooseveltThis merger is going to create the greatest consumer products company in the world.
Warren BuffettMusic is the fourth great material want first food then clothes then shelter then music.
Christian Nestell BoveeThere 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 JordanAll who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Orison Swett MardenThe greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate healthy and loving relationship.
Barbara de AngelisWave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Bette DavisThere is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
James DeanThe great object is that every man be armed.
Patrick HenryRhetoric is a poor substitute for action and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation we must not merely talk, we must act big.
Theodore RooseveltFor centuries New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.
Hillary ClintonThere can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Orison Swett MardenSeven hundred and sixteen billion dollars funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare and we're going to stop it.
Paul RyanBattles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general the more he contributes in maneuver the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston ChurchillThe greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl SandburgOne of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry FordThe man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself or he would cease to be human.
Honore de BalzacOf all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas CarlyleWe can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money, and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George EliotDon't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.
Orison Swett MardenHe that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Thomas FullerI do live like a rock star but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.
Ron WhiteAs great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words so lesser minds have a talent of talking much and saying nothing.
Francois de La RochefoucauldYou wish to appear Cotta a pretty man and a great man at one and the same time: but he who is a pretty man Cotta is a very small man
Marcus AureliusIt is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risk everything.
PlutarchThe greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl JungGreat acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao TzuA great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl NightingaleIt's cool to be a part of history having two great coaches go head-to-head.
Kobe BryantWisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever, no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself, no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Brian TracyLittle progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin CoolidgeNo enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need it performs some great service not for itself but for others, or failing therein it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin CoolidgeThe greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis WaitleyAfter people have repeated a phrase a great number of times they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. WellsGreat thoughts and a pure heart that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat's so great about the kid is that he absolutely doesn't know the word quit. He gave us a real lift today and you had to be impressed with how our team set him up at the end.
Lance ArmstrongThe marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
MichelangeloLike anything else that happens on its own the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have but when it comes to the act of creation the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
Stephen KingGreat thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William HazlittThe reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it because they have no imagination.
Alan WattsAll rising to a great place is by a winding stair
Francis Bacon