Top 1000 Great Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Great people have great values and great ethics.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

Great times, beautiful place, Boulder. In fact, that's where I proposed to Jaye when I took her back there. In the parking lot of Baseline Liquors!

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

All great empires die from within.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

The thing which attracted me to Google and to the Internet in general is that it's a great equalizer. I've always been struck by the fact that Google search worked the same, as long as you had access to a computer with connectivity, if you're a rural kid anywhere or a professor at Stanford or Harvard.

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

You show me anybody that's great in anything they do, I'll show you somebody that's persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Being the captain is a great privilege and a responsibility to lead a great group with different cultures.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and, indeed, the whole of our territory west of the Rocky Mountains, should speedily be filled up by a hardy and patriotic population.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

The European Union is not only a great idea, but it's also an idea we must keep working on.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Anyone can dream up great ideas, but an idea is nothing until it's realized, be it as a website, a physical product, an app, or a user interface.

What millions died that Caesar might be great!

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

With the right people, culture, and values, you can accomplish great things.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

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.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Never quit believing that you can develop in life. Never give up. Don't deny the inward spirit that provides the drive to accomplish great things in life.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

A bright, colorful clutch is a great statement piece that never goes out of style.

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

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.