Top 1000 Great Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second.

I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.

It's never too late to be great.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, 'Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?' The Great Creator answered, 'You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man.'

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.

Great souls suffer in silence.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

People say, 'Dream big!' - but you have to think about the logistics. It's not just coming up with a great idea; it's how you can sell or market or promote that great idea.

I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

A great tailor is like a great personal trainer - they tailor that suit to your natural physique.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

Every day is a great day for hockey.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Great things are won by great dangers.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody.

I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.