God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something’s time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
When people push back on you and don’t think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they’re right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there’s less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.
Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, ‘Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.’
It’s always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months.
I always entertain great hopes.
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
It doesn’t matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn’t have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
We grow small trying to be great.
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great.
It was some great times and some great moments… I’m proud to be a WWE alumni. If it wasn’t for my time there, there’s no way I’d be excelling at Fox and acting.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world’s surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person.
Great souls suffer in silence.
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.
If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can’t do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I’m going to do something, I go all the way.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
I do like my breasts. They’re great, so much fun. You can do what you like with them.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
I just think I’m blessed. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I have a great grandmother that passed away at 104 and two grandparents that passed away at 97 and 95, and they never worried about protein. They just enjoyed life, and that’s what I’m doing.
No great thing is created suddenly.
It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
