Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

David Brainerd

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

Edwin Louis Cole

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

Edwin Louis Cole

Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become

Edna Ferber

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

Benjamin Franklin

Great hopes make everything great possible

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

Baltasar Gracian

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Demi Moore

I want things to be the best they can be I want greatness.

Daniel Handler

The Edith Head Trio, I would say, would be even less of a musical career than playing the accordion, particularly because I played the accordion in The Edith Head Trio. I'm very impressed by your Googling. The Edith Head Trio and another band, Tzamboni, were two bands I was in after college that played at tiny clubs to little acclaim. Our Gypsy tango version of "When Doves Cry" was our biggest hit.But we were not destined for greatness.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The really great people are the ones who know how to make the little people feel great.

Arthur Helps

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

Jean Giraudoux

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.

Brian Sullivan

There are more important things than winning a race, ... Beth was having a great run, she'd really put it in her mind today to go out and win. She'd been running real well up to this point. Right now, I'm just worried about her.

Michael Leunig

There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity.

Ben Roethlisberger

The O (offensive) line did a great job and it made my job a whole lot easier.

The only times I got sacked was when I was trying to make plays on my own. It wasn't that the offensive line had let down. They did a great job.

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

Gigi Hadid

Boxing has been great for me because it's, like, my new sport, so it's something that I can get better at.

Geoffrey Ward

I have always had a great interest in visually documenting the past.

Pat Bowlen

We're playing on the road, in Kansas City, on a Thursday. Playing Pittsburgh on the opening Thursday would be a great game, but we don't need two of them.

We're playing hard, but we're not finishing. I don't know if it's conditioning or a mental thing, but it's disappointing because we play great for 42 minutes and let it slip away at the end of games.

We're playing great and we're playing hard, ... We never give up. We're a team, so we're playing together, and right now we're a winner.

We tried. But this is a great win for us. We were able to get a win anyway.

We've been in talks with movie studios and record labels, and they know, we've got this great primarily male, 18- to 34-year-old demographic, which is highly sought after for them.

We thought we'd just explore. I think this is a great litmus test.

We really hit it off. There are a lot of great quarterbacks in the (NCAA), so it was cool.

Mike Shanahan

We really feel like Mike is in great shape. He's had a great camp. There are no questions in our minds that he's totally healthy.