Great Quotes

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Being is the great explainer.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.