Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Schiller

A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.

Friedrich Schiller

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Jon Meacham

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

Jon Landau

The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.

Lucan

Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

Luc de Clapiers

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Luc de Clapiers

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

Luc de Clapiers

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

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.

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

Stephen Leacock

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.

Rick Santelli

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

Ron Fournier

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

Stephen Vizinczey

Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.

Stefan Zweig

Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you think too modestly about yourself. Everything you do is destined to be of historic significance. One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind, like those of Wagner and Brahms.

Soulja Boy

I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

Thomas B. Macaulay

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

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

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.

Robert Ringer

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

Robert Collier

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

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.

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.