It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
William Cobbett
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
Oprah Winfrey
Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
M. C. Escher
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from 'justifying' ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
Oscar Wilde
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Oscar Wilde
Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.
Oscar Wilde
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Benjamin Disraeli
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
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
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
John F. Kennedy
Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing.
Yiddish proverb
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
There's a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost
It's not how you start, it's how you finish, I guess. It's a great day.
Doug Armstrong
It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.
Lewis Carroll
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
Even the great get greater by doing more of it.
Colleen Wainwright
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas H. Huxley
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother Teresa
Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
M. C. Escher
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart
What the great ones do, the less will prattle of.
William Shakespeare
We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.
Richard J. Daley
He is not great who is not greatly good.
William Shakespeare
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
William Shakespeare
Small to greater matters must give way.
William Shakespeare
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
Saint Teresa Of Avila
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Joseph Joubert
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Horace Mann
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
Great things are done by a seris of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Well, the fact is that one cannot retrace one's steps, and the steps one has taken greatly influence the future.
Vincent van Gogh
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Michel de Montaigne
Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near the great goal, "I have done what I could.
Louis Pasteur
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke
The greater the sinner, the greater the saint.
English Proverb
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. Clement Stone
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
Alexander Graham Bell
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.
Niccolo Machiavelli
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
Niccolo Machiavelli
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
Rudyard Kipling
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
Walt Disney
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
Desiderius Erasmus
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
J. K. Rowling
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. Rowling
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Sir Francis Bacon
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Lewis Carroll
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.
Nelson Mandela
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
G. K. Chesterton
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
Samuel Butler
All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Lois McMaster Bujold
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas Henry Huxley
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Albert Camus
Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which is it to be fullfilled, and thus baffles all calculation.
Henri Bergson
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Cyril Connolly
Where would this country be without this great land of ours?
Ronald Reagan
There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Henri Bergson
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Matthew Arnold
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawaharlal Nehru
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas H. Huxley
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The greatest step is out the door.
German Proverb
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
Thomas H. Huxley
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
Joe Paterno
If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline.
Harry S Truman
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
John Buchan
Your people, sir, is nothing but a great beast.
Alexander Hamilton
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
Wilbur Wright
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman
Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
Publilius Syrus
Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.
Davy Crockett
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
Real Live Preacher
A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
L. Ron Hubbard
The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.
Adolf Hitler
They brought in great earnings.
David Shove
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
William Hazlitt
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
William Hazlitt
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
Augustine Birrell
Laura does such a great job finishing in the air. She's a very good player and Kelsey and she have a good connection.
Charlie Parrish
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
Samuel Johnson
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Cato the Elder
It was a great day for us. All 12 players were there and they did a super job of performing.
Duane Zauner
The great comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old to die young.
Paul Dickson
He obviously has a great arm and foot, but he also is one of the best blockers on this team, and he does a great job on defense. If there were 11 Kyle Days on a team, you wouldn't lose.
Bill Baker
It's great to see a shutout.
Chuck Rocconi
The players aren't only great athletes, they are also fashion icons and this idea complements the crossover between sport and fashion.
Larry Scott
The greatest promoter in all the world. I've seen him carrying belts for heavyweight fights, everything.
Royce Clayton
Everything has gone beyond my expectations. I've had a great summer, and the fans have been tremendous. Chicago has taken us in and has been great.
Jennie Finch
There's so much pressure; the penalties are so great.
Cynthia Lowery
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler
A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger
After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I've been very fortunate to play with some great players. It's special to get to play in a lot of those situations.
Shea Weber
We did a great job on him. We got him a little frustrated at the beginning of the game.
Travis Parker
It marks the beginning of a new adventure and confirms an even greater commitment to F1.
Yasuhiro Wada
It's a great chance to be up close and personal, and it's a great opportunity for classical music lovers.
Laura Sullivan
I'd rather err on the side of caution. He says he feels great.
Brent Kemnitz
A great aspect of America is the ability of the less fortunate to purchase and own property.
Mychal Massie
We want everyone to know we're up, we're ready, we're doing great.
Crystal Potter
IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
Ambrose Bierce
Academic Bowl is a great way to keep up with all that useless knowledge that you sometimes accidentally get in class.
Catie Eisel
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
C. Northcote Parkinson
(St. Joseph's) pitcher pitched a great game. We just didn't hit. We couldn't get anything through.
Mandy Goodwin
Stevie is a great athlete who will do multiple things in practice.
Tracy Bunge
It was a tough day for our guys. But it was a great season..
Todd Hursey
Tyrone was great. He's awesome. I wish we had five of him. Even two of him.
Mike Stock
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. Montague
If it's purely economic, it could be a great channel for people to find work.
Paul Johnston
Back in the era when we were dealing with the Soviets, we had a lot greater understanding of how they were going to move and when they were going to move and the conditions.
Christopher Jackson
It's a high-energy team. We have some great freshman talent and they bring a lot of energy, too.
Krista Rappahahn
It would be a big statement. It would show how much Coach Cohen has done bringing the program to prominence. It would be great.
Antone Dejesus
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Walter Bagehot
We had a great season, 21-5. They know they did well. We talked about that after the game - to not let this one game bring them down.
Scott O'neal
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
Jonas Salk
It's a great idea to copy those. Because in case you lose them, it's so much easier to get them replaced if you have a copy of them.
Nilou Motamed
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