Great Quotes

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

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

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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

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.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger.