Famous Quotes

"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."

Charles de Montesquieu on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Charles de Montesquieu

• "It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."

• "Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."

• "We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

• "I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."

• "There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."