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.
John Stuart Mill

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.
Calvin Coolidge

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.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jesse Jackson

To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.
Lance Armstrong

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

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Jacques Barzun

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
James Dean

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
Olive Schreiner

Words cannot express how proud I am to be carrying the Olympic Torch for my home, New York, New York - the greatest city in the world.
Sean John Combs

Don't be humble... you're not that great.
Golda Meir

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
W. Clement Stone

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
Jeanette Winterson

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

I've been wanting to work with her ever since. It's great to see that wish finally come true.
John Legend

We grow small trying to be great.
David Hockney