Great Quotes

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Ovid

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Bertrand Russell

You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God

Wallace D. Wattles

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Stendhal

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Marshall McLuhan

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come

Joseph Joubert

A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father

Sigmund Freud

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

Martina Navratilova

Bill is striving for common ground reducing the number of unintended pregnancies, getting to a place where there are fewer and fewer and fewer abortions. One of the great things about campaigning is you get to define and redefine yourself, and that's what Bill Ritter is doing right now

Evan Dreyer

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Rabindranath Tagore

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

Gerald R. Ford