Great Quotes

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

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

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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

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.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

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.

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.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.