It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. Helen Keller
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. Winston Churchill
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. Mahatma Gandhi
Life is either a great adventure or nothing. Helen Keller
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. Karl Marx
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Friedrich Nietzsche
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. Winston Churchill
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
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France
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
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones. William Shakespeare
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. C. S. Lewis
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
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
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. William Shakespeare