Great Quotes

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

It is not strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless.
Leo Tolstoy

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

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

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Jean Paul

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.
Sitting Bull

I think it's the great thing about having kids. They have interests that you might not have, and it opens your horizons.
Robert Martin

There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne

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

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

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Herman Melville

Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry A. Kissinger

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
Marlene Dietrich

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

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Henry George

Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart.
Mencius

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
Mencius

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

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

I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time.
Tom Jones

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. Forster

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.
James J. Hill

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
Orison Swett Marden

We bear the world and we make it. ... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
Olive Schreiner

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. Clement Stone

I think music sharing of any kind is great.
Talib Kweli

I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes.
Richard Branson

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
Terence

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.