The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
I have a great smile. A lot of people don’t know that.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
When you play in a great club like Real Madrid, it’s hard to stay here.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.
When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people – black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants – to make up America.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
I was given such a great gift. It’s a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I’ll be. I just want to be a better man.
I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.
Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
I love being in a city with great weather.
Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
People see police officers and think they’re such bad people. We have some who can be some bad people. But we have some great ones out there, that are here to protect us.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves.
I can do small things in a great way.
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
Prince is from the school of James Brown, and I love James Brown because of all the great rhythms he plays.
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
All great empires die from within.
There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il Sung and great Comrade Kim Jong Il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.
Always make the choice to learn. What Princeton taught me was whatever mess you are studying, pull a thread with great persistence ’til you have clarity of thought. Princeton taught me how to solve a problem. How to think – that’s what we pull out of this place.
Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It’s a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
The great thing about pastry is there are so many avenues – it’s very hard to get bored doing this.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Love is a great beautifier.
Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it’s an earthquake – when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.
The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
I know to win a championship, you’re not going to do it alone. You’re going to have to have a great supporting cast.
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
