Great Quotes

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

The year 1999, seventh month, from Heaven will come a great king of terror: to bring back to life the great King of Angolmois. Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.