My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. Lee Iacocca
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. James A. Michener
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it. Norman Rockwell
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Epictetus
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. Albert Schweitzer
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. Benjamin Disraeli
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! Anthony de Mello
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. Malcolm Muggeridge
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it. Danny Kaye
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. Arthur Schopenhauer
It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. Orson Welles
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. Samuel Smiles
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. Plutarch
Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are. James Cash Penney
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. Bill Maher
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. John Ruskin
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. Edmund Burke