Great Quotes

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.