Great Quotes

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. View quote
Herbert Spencer
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. View quote
Plutarch
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. View quote
Seneca
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. View quote
Voltaire
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. View quote
Mark Twain
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. View quote
Hector Berlioz
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. View quote
John Dewey
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay. (Isaac Newton)
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. View quote
Herodotus
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. View quote
Laozi
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
The history of the world is but the biography of great men. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. View quote
Winston Churchill
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. View quote
Rita Rudner
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. View quote
Henry James
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
All great truths begin as blasphemies. (George Bernard Shaw)
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. View quote
Anatole France
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense - he is always satisfied with himself. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Great thoughts always come from the heart. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues