Great Quotes

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?

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

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.