Top 484 Greatest Quotes

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.
James Allen
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Henry David Thoreau
I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It’s shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes.
Guillermo del Toro
People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash
I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It

I’m not the greatest boyfriend, but I’m not a creep. It’s more like I’m… absent-minded.
Matt Dillon
It’s been a privilege to get to watch one of sports greatest athletes prepare and get to play with him; honestly… it’s a dream. I remember being in eighth grade saying, ‘I’m Tom Brady,’ on the asphalt at recess, you know, playing football.
Julian Edelman
Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
Solomon Ortiz
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth
Your first projects aren’t the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn – you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.
Steve Wozniak
Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.
Michelle Obama
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
Augustus Y. Napier
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
Ezra Taft Benson
When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction you’ll have in this life as you grow old will be seeing your children grow in righteousness and faith and goodness as citizens of the society of which they are a part.
Gordon B. Hinckley
As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility – which I do.
Majora Carter
The greatest power is often simple patience.
E. Joseph Cossman
I placed my new novel, ‘The Book of Lost Fragrances’, in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
M. J. Rose
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
Swami Vivekananda
For centuries, Cuba’s greatest resource has been its people.
Pico Iyer
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I’m stronger.
Aaron Carter
I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.
Jim Carrey
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides
For years, I meant to read ‘Arabian Sands’, Wilfred Thesiger’s account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia’s Empty Quarter. Now that I have, I can sheepishly join the chorus of those who revere the book as one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing.
Michael Dirda
Linguistic supersizing is on the increase, and it may show the influence of advertising-speak and corporate jargon on language, in which everything needs to be hyped to get noticed. It means that some of our greatest words are losing their power.
Susie Dent
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.
Matt Dillon
You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you’d like to have it done. And I’ve always been able to surround myself with really good people.
Kenny Rogers
One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
Sam Brownback
Today’s policies and political activity treat people like pawns. More than ever before, attempts will be made to use people like cogs in a wheel. People will be handled like puppets on a string, and everyone will think that this reflects the greatest progress imaginable.
Rudolf Steiner
In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.
Kofi Annan
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.
John Muir
Fear of failure, it’s the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
Jerry West
Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.
Mike Myers
Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn’t the greatest feeling.
Charlie Rowe
Our nation’s children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
Christopher Dodd
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all natur

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
Gilbert White
I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad Ali
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
John Burroughs
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
Ethel Waters
It’s one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around… It’s an honor to be closing it.
Aaron Neville
The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.
Angela Ahrendts
That’s the greatest comeback since Lazarus.
Sid Waddell
With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
Felix Dennis
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
Orison Swett Marden
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Joseph Addison
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.
Publilius Syrus
Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
Ricki Lake
One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn’t live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they’ve been brutalized for so long.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Drew Barrymore
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
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.
Taylor Caldwell
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
Michelangelo
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope
I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There’s a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it’s like meditation.
Brian Wilson
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric Hoffer
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
Michael Jordan
I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.
Charles M. Schwab