Top 455 Great Quotes

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At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations… eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

That’s another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.

There is a dark side in all of us. And for us ‘bad’ people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

It’s a great honour to be recognised and appreciated by your fellow colleagues.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselvesself-discipline with all of them came first.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

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.

Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.

Jimmy Dean
Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you’re pampered, you get lazy.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Don’t believe the hype. I don’t care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don’t care how much they say you’re great, don’t believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you’re supposed to do.

You don’t build a great castle just all at once.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Julius Caesar
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Otto von Bismarck
Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief.

It has been great journey from where I have started to where I am today. I am really blessed with God’s grace.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

To me, there’s no great chef without a great team.

I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894… A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

Juan Manuel Fangio
I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada – nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

To win, or to create a great group with winning mentality, you need first stability, but serenity as well. And it is only by creating an internal and mutual trust that you can achieve it.

Mattia Binotto
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you’re not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you’re hooked.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

Karen Blixen
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

I’ve usually used the phrase ‘stay the course‘ as one of the great rules of investment success.

If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

I know to win a championship, you’re not going to do it alone. You’re going to have to have a great supporting cast.

Klay Thompson
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

Karolina Kurkova
If Heaven exists, to know that there’s laughter, that would be a great thing.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

Emmanuel Teney
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it’s really easy to look at someone else‘s life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

Michel De Certeau
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

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.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

William Wilberforce
It’s a great feeling when your work is appreciated.

At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Ariel Durant
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial look, but the great gift still has to come from Africa – giving the world a more human face.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Dwight L Moody
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

Mary Gordon
As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

An out-and-out fast bowler is one of the great sights in cricket.

It’s true that in my family, everyone loves football. So it’s great to have a family that’s united behind you and doesn’t leave you.

Karim Benzema
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Yousuf Karsh
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Cesare Lombroso
Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It’s a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Benjamin Harrison
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.

I look back on my career and my time as commissioner with great fondness.

Strong convictions precede great actions.

James Freeman Clarke
The great thing about pastry is there are so many avenues – it’s very hard to get bored doing this.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Malcolm Muggeridge
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

For me, it’s a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me ‘You’re not going to be a DJ.’

I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It’s just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.

Elena Vesnina
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

It’s a great day for a ball game; let’s play two!

I’m never bored, never ever bored. If I’ve got a day off I’ll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I’m a great observer.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Great loves too must be endured.

Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something’s time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it’s just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I’ve done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she’s 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.

Ashley Bell
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

Fereydun, that’s my dad’s name. My grandmother, my dad’s mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn’t his child, but he was still very supportive and said, ‘Hey, this is a great name,’ and so it stuck. So that’s what she named him.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

Tom Hopkins
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

It doesn’t matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn’t have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.

I’m lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.

Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.

For great is truth, and shall prevail.

Thomas Brooks
Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.

My wardrobe reflects my long-standing belief that great style lives in the details.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night‘s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can’t do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I’m going to do something, I go all the way.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

William Carey
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it’s great to be alive!

Christopher McCandless
We should always look upon ourselves as God’s servants, placed in God’s world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

The target for every great champion is to play for the team.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

James Jeans
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Leonard Bernstein
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Great art – or good art – is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don’t think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his ‘Make America Great Again’ cap. I would ask him, ‘When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?’

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

People know if you care about them. How do you show people that you care? By caring for them. By putting their needs first. By sacrificing for them. By serving them. Do that, and you’ll build a great team.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I’ve gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it’s, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you’re having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

You’re never too old to start learning, and you’re never too young to aim high and achieve great things.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

All great empires die from within.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

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

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

A good captain is great only if he has a great team.

I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.

Wernher von Braun
Show me a great actor and I’ll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you’ve seen the devil.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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.

It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock
A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

John Buchan
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.

It’s always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months.

I surround myself with good people who make me feel great and give me positive energy.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There’s a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Nostalgia is one thing. It’s great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Alexis Carrel
I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Alexander the Great
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven‘t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world… not make a fast buck.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Philip Sidney
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Daniel J Boorstin
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

An animal‘s eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Martin Buber
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Henry Beston
A great restaurant doesn’t distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.

Carl Zeiss
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

Thérèse of Lisieux
The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

The workshop to me always means great atmosphere, working, smell of wood, dust and, at the end of the day, you’ve created something.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

I think bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are great ideas. They should be allowed to be traded freely and used freely to find their appropriate role in the economy.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.

It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.

Bonnie Blair
Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn’t change a thing!

I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

Paul Henderson
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

I’m surrounded by nothing but great people. I’ve been blessed with that, so really, I’ve got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

It was great. I mean, it’s a blast directing underwater stuff.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Horace Mann
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

A great figure or physique is nice, but it’s self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

It’s very corny, ‘never give up‘ – but it’s just a great quote that I always follow.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Efficiency is a great secret that can drop us right into our ideal life path, but it is a hard one to practice and something that takes constant maintenance and work.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Paris is cafe culture, Dublin is pub culture, and that’s the best place to solve all the world‘s problems: over a pint! One of the great joys of living, I think. The problems of the world seem to disappear.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Chuck Yeager
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory.

Ozzy Osbourne
The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Arnold H Glasow
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Pablo Casals
The great hope of society is in individual character.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world’s surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.

Cecil Rhodes
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

That’s the great thing about a tractor. You can’t really hear the phone ring.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

I’m not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the church.

Shaun Cassidy
I think it’s difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today.

Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

No great thing is created suddenly.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

William Julius Wilson
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people – black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants – to make up America.

When you play in a great club like Real Madrid, it’s hard to stay here.

Karim Benzema
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Benito Mussolini
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

William Styron
I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.

The great growling engine of change – technology.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Carl von Clausewitz
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‘Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

I’ve always loved great upholstery, and think that a great sofa is one of the most important pieces of furniture in your home.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic heart.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

When people push back on you and don’t think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they’re right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.

I like cats a lot. I’ve always liked cats. They’re great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It’s like an offering.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

At one point, I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham but, rather, set out on his own path and ran money his way, by his own rules… I also immediately internalized the idea that no school could teach someone how to be a great investor.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Alan Turing
If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you’ll need their help. And two, because it’s a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward
Great hopes make great men.

By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen.

I love being in a city with great weather.

People always tell you, ‘Be humble. Be humble.’ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

If someone is being bullied or feels like an outsider, and they relate to something that I’ve done, even if it’s just igniting a spark, that’s great. I had that feeling as a kid. I was messed with no end.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Catherine the Great
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Great souls suffer in silence.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

William Bartram
I got a lot of great life lessons from the entertainment industry. The first was being able to feel comfortable taking risks.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Ken Venturi
I am the herald of the Great King.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Queen Victoria
Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill… With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

A great melodic line is like a person’s soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.

I’ve had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan… believe… act!

Alfred A Montapert
It always feels nice to be associated with a team you share a great bond with.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

For everything bad, there’s a million really exciting things, whether it’s someone puts out a really great book, there’s a new movie, there’s a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life.

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Fernando Flores
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Brad Henry
I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Great people have great values and great ethics.

Each person is an enigma. You’re a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Dimnet
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Behind every great athlete is a masterful coach that inspires the athlete to evolve into the strongest performer they can become.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Carrie Snow
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Pablo Neruda
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

I know I’m not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

Melanie Chisholm
You have to study a great deal to know a little.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Max Planck
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that’s the foundation for everything great.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Competition is great. And as long as it’s friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it’s cool.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves – with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

The spirit of celebration and togetherness is a great source of inspiration.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition‘s night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend.