Great Quotes

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.