Great Quotes

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass - and you get up each time - you will reach your destination.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Plagiarism is one of the great academic sins. It has the power to destroy a scholar or writer and turn a lifetime's work to dust.