Great Quotes: Wisdom from the Greatest Minds (Page 14)

"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up"

"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"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Man is only great when he acts from passion"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"I always entertain great hopes"

Robert Frost, Poet

"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"

Robert Frost, Poet

"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me"

Robert Frost, Poet

"I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces"

Dan Rather, Journalist

"Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority"

Edward Young, Poet

"None think the great unhappy, but the great"

Edward Young, Poet

"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A great mind becomes a great fortune"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A great fortune is a great slavery"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"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"

Ronald Reagan, President

"All great change in America begins at the dinner table"

Ronald Reagan, President

"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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