Greatest Quotes

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

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

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

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 Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.