Great Quotes

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.

Football is something great, but it is like making love: if you do it every minute you get bored, so you have to take your time and do it now and again.

It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That's great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.