Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rohr

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

Richard Lamm

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Richard L. Evans

He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.

Rod Parsley

We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.

Robert Wright

Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.

Robert Ley

Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

Sanford I. Weill

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

Samuel Johnson

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.

Voltaire

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

William C. Bryant

Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.

William Butler Yeats

A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.

Wilhelm Reich

The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness.

Walter Russell

The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship.

Walter Savage Landor

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

Walter Savage Landor

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

Walter Savage Landor

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Walter Savage Landor

Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.

Walter Savage Landor

It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.

Walter Scott

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

Winston Churchill

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Winston Churchill

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

William Jennings Bryan

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

Will Self

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.

Will Rogers

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

W. Clement Stone

If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.

W. C. Fields

I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.

Yvon Chouinard

Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

Zac Efron

Being known for musicals is a great thing.

Zhuangzi

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.

Zhuangzi

One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.

Yvette Clarke

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.