Great Quotes

"The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great"

"All great truths begin as blasphemies"

"There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Every calling is great when greatly pursued"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Great and good are seldom the same man"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"That great Cathedral space which was childhood"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships"

Ross Perot, Businessman

"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"We grow small trying to be great"

David Hockney, Artist

"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Base souls have no faith in great individuals"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged"

Helen Keller, Author

"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection"

Terence, Playwright

"Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance"

Horace, Poet

"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

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