Great Quotes: Wisdom from the Greatest Minds (Page 12)

"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Order is a great person's need and their true well being"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it"

Voltaire, Writer

"What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it"

Mark Twain, Author

"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened"

Mark Twain, Author

"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!"

Woody Allen, Director

"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"An index is a great leveller"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man"

Euripides, Poet

"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness"

Victor Hugo, Author

"'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great"

David Carradine, Actor

"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book"

Victor Hugo, Author

"A great artist is a great man in a great child"

Victor Hugo, Author

"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"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest"

Victor Hugo, Author

"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"There would be no great men if there were no little ones"

George Herbert, Poet

"There is great force hidden in a gentle command"

George Herbert, Poet

"A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin"

George Herbert, Poet

"Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen"

Epictetus, Philosopher

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