Famous Quotes
- Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
- Henry David Thoreau on Great
- Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Great
- Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
- William Ellery Channing on Great
- Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt on Great
- Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.
- Herb Brooks on Great
- 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.
- Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin on Great
- Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
- Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
- Coretta Scott King on Great
- Have 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 Hugo on Great
- Have 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 Whitman on Great
- He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- Edmund Burke on Great
- He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
- Norman Schwarzkopf on Great
- He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
- Thomas Fuller on Great
- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
- Francis Bacon on Great
- He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
- He was as great as a man can be without morality.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on Great
- He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
- He who has great power should use it lightly.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Great
- He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
- He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
- Samuel Johnson on Great
- He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
- George Bernard Shaw on Great
- Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Great
- Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
- David Hume on Great
- Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Great
- Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
- Edmund Spenser on Great
- High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
- Christopher Hitchens on Great
- His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald on Great
- History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
- Thomas Carlyle on Great
- How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
- C. S. Lewis on Great
- How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
- David Wilkerson on Great
- However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Great
- Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Great
- Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
- Princess Diana on Great
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