- Great 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 Fuller on Great
- Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
- John Ruskin on Great
- Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
- Anna Magnani on Great
- Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
- Fran Lebowitz on Great
- Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
- Victor Hugo on Great
- Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Great
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein on Great
- Great 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.
- Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
- Vincent Van Gogh on Great
- Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
- William Blake on Great
- Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
- Jack Kerouac on Great
- Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
- George Eliot on Great
- Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Great
- Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
- Theodore Roosevelt on Great
- Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson on Great
- Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Great
- Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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