Greatest Quotes

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.

The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.