Great Quotes

"The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God"

"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off"

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it"

William James, Philosopher

"Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed"

William James, Philosopher

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices"

William James, Philosopher

"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does"

William Blake, Poet

"Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet"

William Blake, Poet

"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great"

Carlo Goldoni, Playwright

"High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"The great thieves lead away the little thief"

Diogenes, Philosopher

"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

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