998 Quotes Regarding Great


The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau

Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. Monson

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli

Never was anything great achieved without danger.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato

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.
Mitt Romney

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Abdul Kalam

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac