Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Kenneth Galbraith

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

John Cusack

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.

Luke Evans

Well usually if I'm having a sh***y day, I don't post anything. I don't go out just to tell everyone I'm having a great day, even if I'm not.

Lord Byron

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

Lou Holtz

We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.

Malcolm Gladwell

To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

Magic Johnson

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

Maimonides

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

Mahatma Gandhi

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

Joshua Reynolds

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

Josh Billings

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Karl Jaspers

It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.

Julius Charles Hare

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

Joyce Cary

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

Oscar Wilde

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Kami Garcia

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

Julie Murphy

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

Joyce Meyer

Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!

Paul Kagame

Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.

Paul Dirac

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

Harbhajan Singh

Your shallowness or greatness of the soul shows up in your aura.

Gustav Stresemann

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

John Dryden

Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

Louis Pasteur

Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.

John Cleese

The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

You know. Murray has had great players and great coaches.

You could see signs of greatness in this team. But you can really see it now.

Al Horford

You could just see it in their face. When we see they're tired - we're in great shape, so we aren't going to get tired. That's when we go in for the kill.

Lance Berkman

You can't give the opposing team's pitcher too much credit. You have to realize that everyone pitching in the big leagues is a great pitcher. But that doesn't mean that they can make a great pitch every single time.

George Lois

You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care about demographics. You have to understand who you're going after.