I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Each person is an enigma. You’re a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
Efficiency is a great secret that can drop us right into our ideal life path, but it is a hard one to practice and something that takes constant maintenance and work.
It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
To become a great player, you’ve got to show real dedication and commitment to football, and you’ve got to be very humble and hard-working. And, above all, you’ve got to fight to make your dreams come true.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.
I love Australia; it was a really, really nice experience for me. It’s such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful – like, really beautiful – and they are beautiful in terms of their personalities. It’s a great place to be. It’s like you are in a little bit of a dream world.
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
It’s great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players.
My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it’s a great demonstration of love. It’s really what love is. It’s finding areas in which other people are more important than you.
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
I discovered that no revival comes if we don’t preach the Word of God under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. If we only have the Great Commission and only the Holy Spirit, we have power without purpose, or purpose without power. It is a package deal, and that is what God honors.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
They missed a great opportunity to shut up.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic heart.
Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.
I think bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are great ideas. They should be allowed to be traded freely and used freely to find their appropriate role in the economy.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
I’ve usually used the phrase ‘stay the course’ as one of the great rules of investment success.
Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
I have a lot of great memories, but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.
Mistakes are part of the game. It’s how well you recover from them, that’s the mark of a great player.
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
I’m so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they’ve been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I’ve made. It’s been very good having them on my side.
Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.
