Great Quotes

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Great souls suffer in silence.

There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

I have great memories.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

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!