Great Quotes

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.