Great Quotes

"Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country"

"There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws"

Andrew Jackson, President

"The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough"

Andrew Jackson, President

"Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you"

Richard Hooker, Priest

"Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter"

Mel Gibson, Actor

"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline"

George Eliot, Author

"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion"

George Eliot, Author

"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity"

George Eliot, Author

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope"

George Eliot, Author

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms"

George Eliot, Author

"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty"

George Eliot, Author

"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections"

George Eliot, Author

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