Great Quotes - page 2

Power is the great aphrodisiac. (Henry Kissinger)
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. View quote
Petrarch
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. View quote
Washington Irving
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Great souls endure in silence. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am. (Muhammad Ali)
Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin. View quote
Anatole France
Don't be humble... you're not that great. View quote
Golda Meir
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. View quote
William Arthur Ward
Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. View quote
Sydney Smith
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Man is only great when he acts from passion. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. (Saul Bellow)
Silence is the one great art of conversation. View quote
William Hazlitt
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow