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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller on great

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France on great

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
John F. Kennedy on great

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare on great

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis on great

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy on great

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson on great

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare on great

A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on great

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

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

Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin on great

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

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

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

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 on great

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 on great

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 on great

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 on great

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 on great