Great Quotes

"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life"

"Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind"

Philo, Philosopher

"Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Great hopes make great men"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate"

Robert Frost, Poet

"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder"

Ronald Reagan, President

"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality"

Og Mandino, Author

"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Great ideas originate in the muscles"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Great loves too must be endured"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable"

Tacitus, Historian

"Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame"

Steven Adler, Musician

"The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for"

Laura Miller, Politician

"Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case"

John Rawls, Educator

"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham"

King Hussein I, Statesman

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