Great Quotes

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

All great achievements require time.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Great things are won by great dangers.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.