Great Quotes

"Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back"

"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true"

H.G. Wells, Author

"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"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"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space"

Philip Johnson, Architect

"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal"

Helen Keller, Author

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble"

Helen Keller, Author

"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"

Helen Keller, Author

"Life is either a great adventure or nothing"

Helen Keller, Author

"The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay"

Martin Luther, Professor

"Go forth a conqueror and win great victories"

Virgil, Writer

"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self"

Martin Luther, Professor

"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"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order"

Will Durant, Historian

"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

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