Great Quotes

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.