Famous Quotes

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."

Samuel Johnson 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 Samuel Johnson

• "There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

• "Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed."

• "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."

• "Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."

• "The true art of memory is the art of attention."