Great Quotes

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

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

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

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

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

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

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

All great achievements require time.

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

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

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

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

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

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.

Silence is a source of great strength.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

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

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.