My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe, I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI 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 ReaganO 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.
Chanakya(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 ClintonThe greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Elbert HubbardOur greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWant 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 BlakeMy 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 KalamOur government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people and I cannot fear the result.
Andrew JacksonMusic the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.
Joseph AddisonHave you learned the lessons only of those who admired you and were tender with you and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you and disputed passage with you?
Walt WhitmanMan tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Charles DarwinNothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company you please none, If you flatter only one or two you offend the rest.
Jonathan SwiftWhat 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 MadisonOne 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 HuxleyThe greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. KennedyThe greatest beauty aid for women is virtue.
Sai BabaWe 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 HillI 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 LawrenceA 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 DisraeliThe 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 JohnsonThe 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.
VoltaireI wanted to only create a great perfume not any perfume that would sell but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
Lady GagaSeven 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 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 BalzacDon't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.
Orison Swett MardenAs 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 AureliusGreat acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao TzuWisdom 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 SenecaNo 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 world is a bundle of hay / Mankind are the asses who pull, / Each tugs it a different way / And the greatest of all is John Bull.
Lord ByronWithout question the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
Dave BarryBeing brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMy mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be and much less about what we would do.
Mitt RomneyGood men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong, he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Christian Nestell BoveeCould a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David ThoreauHe had a great game. He actually taught me to play defense. I wasn't surprised by his play at all.
Kobe BryantTwo great European narcotics alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich NietzscheGreat grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaRice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
Mitch HedbergJust do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.
George Bernard ShawYou need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Henry RollinsThere is none made so great but he may both need the help and service and stand in fear of the power and unkindness even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow WilsonIf we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; And if to live, the fewer men the greater share of honor.
William ShakespeareI have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord ByronI protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed I should instantly close with the offer.
Thomas HuxleyThe Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
David Herbert LawrenceThe flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is
Marcus AureliusThe final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert HubbardThe greater the difficulty the more the glory in surmounting it.
EpicurusThe momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come we can know that His purposes are just and true.
George W. BushTo have great poets there must be great audiences.
Walt WhitmanGreatly his foes he dreads but more his friends, he hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Winston ChurchillThere is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Benjamin DisraeliI was like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac NewtonGive a little love to a child and you get a great deal back.
John RuskinPoverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Kahlil GibranSpeaking purely from a musical standpoint I think I am a great performer.
Lady GagaThe difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.
William BlakeThe difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
Charles R. SwindollAs usual there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John LennonA just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Joseph AddisonThe higher the sun ariseth the less shadow doth he cast, even so the greater is the goodness the less doth it covet praise, yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao TzuThe outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister EckhartService is greater than meditation.
Sai BabaFrom a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel ButlerIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.
Charles DarwinGreat people talk about ideas average people talk about things and small people talk about wine.
Fran LebowitzWe only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo gain a crown by fighting is great to reject it divine.
Friedrich SchillerAll great art is the work of the whole living creature body and soul and chiefly of the soul.
John RuskinI think this was our best game this season. We played very well at both ends of the court consistently. We did a great job containing our energy and when we went to our bench they came in and maintained our energy. We had guys step up consistently and make big plays. That is what we have to do. If we can keep this rolling we will make a lot of noise.
Kobe BryantWho in the world am I? Ah that's the great puzzle.
Lewis CarrollMeetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth GalbraithPolice and firefighters are great but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
Rush LimbaughThe mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur WardGreat things are done when men and mountains meet
William BlakeLenience will operate with greater force in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
George WashingtonGreat loves too must be endured.
Coco ChanelGreat achievement is usually born of great sacrifice and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon HillGreat is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous HuxleyDemocracy shows not only its power in reforming governments but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
Andrew JacksonI think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
Angelina JolieThe greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Charles LambI think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
Henry RollinsPut the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett MardenWhat greater gain can there be for man than becoming aware of his Self himself knowing himself.
Sai BabaIt is criminal to steal a purse daring to steal a fortune a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich SchillerThe atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S. TrumanThe greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
Ronald ReaganGreat wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious.
ZhuangziPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranThose who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
John F. KennedyMy mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity her compassion her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
Michelle ObamaThe ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture their amphitheaters for wild beasts to fight in.
VoltaireIt was a great read by them. They sent out all small so they were able to switch everything. They took the play away from us.
Kobe BryantWouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?
Rush LimbaughOur actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOur greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric HofferThere is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaSubordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel JohnsonTo have a great idea have a lot of them.
Thomas A. EdisonThe American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self and, at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
Mitt RomneyWhat is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. ForsterThe secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard ShawBehind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de BalzacThat business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
Mitt RomneyPerhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard ShawIs there not some chosen curse some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven red with uncommon wrath to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Joseph AddisonThe Black skin is not a badge of shame but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus GarveyIf you doubt any of these great truths you are to suffer and grieve.
Sai BabaThe greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison... Edison's first major invention in 1877 was the phonograph which could soon be found in thousands of American homes where it basically sat until 1923 when the record was invented.
Dave BarryOnly dedicated mothers can offer to the nation children who will strive for a great future for the country.
Sai BabaWhen a great many people are unable to find work unemployment results.
Calvin CoolidgeI think that it's a great step for us being that we didn't make the playoffs last year. We were able to bounce back. It's a step in the right direction. But it's not something that we're going to celebrate over.
Kobe BryantIrreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
Ambrose BierceLet the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Alfred Lord TennysonGreat authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre GideSee everything overlook a great deal correct a little.
Pope John XXIIIOur nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
Rush LimbaughMen have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David ThoreauIt is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore de BalzacA subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac AsimovLove and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheInterest is the spur of the people but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth and judgment of age.
Jonathan SwiftThere is no greater evil than anarchy.
SophoclesThe great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Christian Nestell Bovee