998 Quotes Regarding Great


Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

To do a great right do a little wrong.
William Shakespeare

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

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mahatma Gandhi

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
Muhammad Ali

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
Gabriel Byrne

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
John Wooden