Great Quotes

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.