Judge 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 KellerHeroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage, the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich NietzscheThe Bible remained for me a book of books still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Joseph 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 RandThat which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it.
AristotleMy father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim ValvanoMy 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 LawrenceEnthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel ButlerHealthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have
Winston ChurchillAmerica 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. BushBecause 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 KierkegaardA great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor HugoI 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.
BuddhaAs a child of God I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Abdul KalamI am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark TwainIt'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 AngelouPrepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TecumsehAdvertising 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 IrvingHealth 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.
BuddhaWe 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 TeresaMy books are like water, those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark TwainThe reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark TwainTo the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. RowlingTo conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
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 GibranSometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.
Mitt RomneyEverything 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 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 TeresaThe 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 GibranAttention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
PlatoGreatness does not consist in receiving honors but in deserving them.
AristotleNot in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness only in his actions, in his life.
Herman HesseI never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Jonathan SwiftDeath 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 TwainCivil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
AristotleI have great faith in fools, self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan PoeNo one knows whether death which people fear to be the greatest evil may not be the greatest good.
PlatoLand and sea weakness and decline are great separators but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John KeatsLet 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 FullerYour 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 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 ClintonMothers 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 BabaMy 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 KalamIt 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 BabaTo live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin CoolidgeTo this day some of my closest friends say 'Gaga you know everything's great. You're a singer, your dreams have come true.' But still when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.
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