Famous Quotes

"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration."

James Lane Allen 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 James Lane Allen

• "Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

• "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

• "He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure."

• "To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."

• "He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure."