Greatest Quotes

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine.

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

I still think I am the greatest.

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.