Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

William Wordsworth

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

William Shirley

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.

William Saroyan

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

William J. Clinton

41, you look great. Love what you're doing.

William J. Clinton

America's greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential.

William Gilmore Simms

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

Samuel Smiles

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

Ronald Reagan

My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best."

Saint Augustine

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

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.