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Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government.
— Matt Salmon
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.
— Ellen Willis
The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
— Dean Smith
I was inspired by my son on the song 'The Most Beautiful People Are Broken.' Life is an extra challenge for him. But he does it all with such great grace and courage.
— Maria Doyle Kennedy
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
— Marian Anderson
I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.
— Beth Moore
Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
— Don Young
All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
— Vash Young
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.
— Judith Rossner
Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.
— William L. Jenkins
I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.
— Samuel Barber
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
— Stephen Baker
Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.
— John Hockenberry
You have to have the courage to face the unexpected. This is the difference between people who do things and people who don't dare, who don't dare to live.
— Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.
— Nancy Keenan
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
— Patrick Campbell
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
— Charles Luckman
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
— William Barclay
It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.
— Bonnie Blair
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
— Jim Carrey
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
— Lao Tzu
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people. 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
— Vincent Van Gogh
No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.
— Donald Trump
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
— William Shakespeare
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.
— Alyssa Milano
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
— John Ruskin
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
— Stendhal
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
— Helen Keller
Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.
— Karolina Kurkova
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
— William James
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
— H. L. Mencken
Small aim is a crime have great aim. 
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
— Vince Lombardi
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
— Robert H. Schuller
Who's my hero? That's a great question... Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he's someone I look up to every day.
— Tom Brady
Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have done to ensure our freedom.
— Rodney Frelinghuysen
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
— Napoleon Hill
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
— Napoleon Hill
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.
— Vivica A. Fox
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
— Yo-Yo Ma
There have been so many great moments, and I feel so blessed every day.
— Vusi Mahlasela
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
— Aeschylus
We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again.
— Donald Trump
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
— Dag Hammarskjold
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
— Kobe Bryant
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I feel like life is really short, and it's important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it's a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can't escape challenges; they are part of life.
— Miranda Kerr
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
— John F. Kennedy
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
— Dr. Seuss
I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.
— Harry Houdini
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
— William Blake
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
— Lord Byron
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
— John Burroughs
The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
— Swami Sivananda
I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.
— Fergie
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
— Martha Graham
To me, there's no great chef without a great team.
— Daniel Boulud
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.
— Jacques Pepin
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
— Marcus Aurelius
You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Today's a beautiful day, and yesterday was a beautiful day, so that means it's a great life.
— Gnash
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.
— Jay-Z
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.
— Chris Evans
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
— Niels Bohr
The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
— Dan Stevens
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
— Mother Teresa
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
— James A. Michener
We want to do a lot of stuff we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup. 
— Jerry Seinfeld
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
— Ben Carson
My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
— Muhammad Ali
I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it. 
— Edgar Allan Poe
A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.
— Pele
I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.'
— Emmanuelle Chriqui
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
— Bill Gates
I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.
— Donald Trump
A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.
— Harvey Mackay
I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.
— Rihanna
Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle the win comes from basic blocking and tackling. 
— Naveen Jain
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
— Sigmund Freud
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
— Andrew Jackson
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
— Socrates
It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
— Rita Rudner
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
— Colin Powell
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
— Edmund Spenser
There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
— Tahj Mowry
An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
— Kathi Appelt
If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
— Abraham Lincoln
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
— Thomas Paine
I love my iPhone it's great to have a camera around all the time. 
— Win Butler
When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.
— Judy Garland
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
— Carl von Clausewitz
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
— Horace Mann
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
— Stephen Covey
Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.
— Howard Schultz
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Never quit believing that you can develop in life. Never give up. Don't deny the inward spirit that provides the drive to accomplish great things in life.
— Jon Huntsman, Sr.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.
— John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
— Willem Dafoe
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
— Milton Friedman
Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
— Dwayne Johnson
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
— Vincent Van Gogh
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
— Harry S Truman
Nothing beats a great smile.
— Karl Urban
It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends.
— Harbhajan Singh
There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.
— Christopher Lee
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak. 
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
— Nicolas Cage
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
— Maya Angelou
If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
— Tom Hanks
You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.
— Joel Osteen
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
— Sallust
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
— Alexander Hamilton
Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.
— Rupert Murdoch
Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain.
— Elizabeth Banks
Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.
— John C. Maxwell
Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.
— Enzo Ferrari
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
— Ronald Reagan
Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.
— George Grey
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
— Sigmund Freud
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
— Charles R. Swindoll
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
— Allen Boyd
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
— George Bernard Shaw
A wedding, a great wedding, is just a blast. A celebration of romance and community and love... What is unfun about that? Nothing.
— Ariel Levy
Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.
— Penelope Cruz
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
— Vincent Van Gogh
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.
— Thierry Henry
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
— Humphry Davy
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
— Mark Twain
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
— Chanakya
Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.
— Rory McIlroy
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
— Charles de Montesquieu
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
— Richard Dawkins
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
— Alan Watts
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them. 
— Washington Irving
Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
— Jeb Bush
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
— Muhammad Ali
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
— Leo Burnett
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
— Enya
To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
— Valentino Rossi
The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
— John C. Maxwell
Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.
— Megan Smith
Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle - my life loves to see how others live, exults in their joy, and so far is partner in their great concern.
— Edward Everett Hale
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don't have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you - unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike.
— Justin Rosenstein
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
— Louis C. K.
The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.
— Sam Rivers
We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation.
— Patrick Henry
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
— Winston Churchill
I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.
— Russell Wilson
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
— Milton Friedman
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it. 
— Danny Kaye
In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent.
— Kobe Bryant
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
— Lao Tzu
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
— Paul Valery
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
— Iris Apfel
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
— Leon Trotsky
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
— John Ruskin
Fantasies can be great, but we shouldn't make the wedding a fantasy, because the wedding is the gateway to married life. It shouldn't be a moment of illusion; it should be a moment of preparation.
— Alain de Botton
From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.
— Whitney Houston
Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it's such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It's very sleek.
— Bryan Batt
In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.
— Jeff Greene
Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
— M. Night Shyamalan
It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country; I have more reason than anyone to feel, every day of my life, the value of the blood which flows in my veins, and it is only from prudence that at times I abstain from showing how proud I am of it.
— Marie Antoinette
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
— Margaret Fuller
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
— Elbert Hubbard
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
— Alfred A. Montapert
Great necessities call out great virtues.
— Abigail Adams
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
— Jack Kerouac
Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.
— Dale T. Mortensen
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
— Martin Luther
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
— Thomas A. Edison
I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.
— Tim Tebow
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
— Peter Marshall
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
— Douglas MacArthur
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
— Saint Augustine
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.
— Andy Warhol
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
— Oscar Wilde
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
— Valentino Rossi
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
— Mick Jagger
I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
— Gary Busey
Innovation in an existing company is not just the sum of great technology, key acquisitions, or smart people. Corporate innovation needs a culture that matches and supports it.
— Steve Blank
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
— Adam Smith
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
— Joe Paterno
To do a great right do a little wrong.
— William Shakespeare
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
— Helen Keller
A great day in New York would be to wake up, get a cup of coffee and head up to Central Park for a nice walk. Then I'd go down to the East Village and stroll around. After that, maybe I'd go check out a museum or catch an indie film at the Angelika.
— Emmanuelle Chriqui
Great minds have purposes others have wishes. 
— Washington Irving
I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
— Mark Twain
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
— Muhammad Ali
Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.
— Simon Sinek
Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
— Mitch Hedberg
There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.
— Kris Carr
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
— Frederick Douglass
I was a great student. I was good at everything.
— Donald Trump
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A great tailor is like a great personal trainer - they tailor that suit to your natural physique.
— Jidenna
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
— Demetri Martin
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.
— Nina Easton
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
— Hypatia
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
— Ernest Hemingway
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
— Bjorn Borg
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.
— Ernest Istook
Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
— H. P. Lovecraft
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
— Penelope Keith
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
— Joseph Conrad
I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.
— Hulk Hogan
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
— Black Elk
I think it's great to dress up and play on all the girly features.
— Katy Perry
My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.
— Action Bronson
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. 
— Simone Weil
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
— Warren Bennis
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
— Robert Frost
Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to make a purchase. It can also be a real bonding opportunity. Helping your friend find something nice is just as rewarding as helping yourself.
— Sophie Kinsella
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
— Louis L'Amour
Great people have great values and great ethics.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
— Conrad Hilton
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
— Charlie Chaplin
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
— Nazim Hikmet
I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.
— Magic Johnson
It's not like a boss and artist relationship; it's like a big brother to a younger brother relationship, and he's a great guy. So big shout-out to Akon and the Konvict Muzik crowd.
— WizKid
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
— Shakti Gawain
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.
— Alison Gopnik
I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.
— Cherie Blair
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
— Henry Van Dyke
A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
— Margaret Heffernan
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
— Alexander Graham Bell
I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I'm with an angel.
— Benjamin Clementine
I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphere is one that I use as an escape from reality.
— Danny Masterson
What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
— Chief Seattle
All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.
— David Suzuki
I don't like to do much with my hair - which is good, because I don't know how! I just always make sure I have a great haircut.
— Chyler Leigh
He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. He who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. 
— Louisa May Alcott
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.
— Tom Brokaw
Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground - if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.
— David Boies
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
— Aldous Huxley
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
— Plato
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.
— Anne Lamott
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
— Benjamin Franklin
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
— Benjamin Franklin
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
— Robert M. Pirsig
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
— John Locke
Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
— Simon Cowell
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
— Samuel Smiles
Atheism is aristocratic the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. 
— Maximilien Robespierre
Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that. 
— Joe Theismann
You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.
— Slash
Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.
— T. J. Miller
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
— Elbert Hubbard
Don't be humble... you're not that great.
— Golda Meir
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
— Charles Kingsley
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Hard times always lead to something great.
— Betsey Johnson
If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
— Robin Williams
Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
— Winston Churchill
Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.
— Herb Brooks
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
— Blaise Pascal
In terms of fashion, I love adding a fun scarf to whatever I'm wearing - it's a great way to dress up a plain outfit!
— Bridgit Mendler
If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.
— Jim Evans
The great tradition of Delhi can be seen through its cuisine.
— Mohit Chauhan
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
— Simon Sinek
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
— Robin Williams
As we learned after President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff at the outset of the Great Depression, vibrant international trade is a key component to economic recovery; hindering trade is a recipe for disaster.
— Asa Hutchinson
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
— Robert Frost
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
— Ariel Durant
Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
— Campbell Scott
Dance is a great way to express yourself.
— Darcey Bussell
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
— David Attenborough
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. 
— Plato
For a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.
— Nigel Barker
More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
— Dan Gable
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
— Brian Eno
Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's just the way it happened to me with my relationships. I love the idea of two people looking at each other and electricity flying around them; it's so romantic, and it's a great feeling.
— Kim Barnouin
I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.
— Paula Danziger
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
— James Dean
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
— Richard M. Nixon
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.
— Raphael Saadiq
Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.
— Chris Riddell
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
— Samuel Butler
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Every day is a great day for hockey.
— Mario Lemieux
Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
— Edmund White
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
— Adam Ant
One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.
— Wolfgang Puck
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
— Yousuf Karsh
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
— Francis Drake
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.
— Jonah Hill
You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as you dominant aspiration. 
— James Allen
I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
— Al Pacino
A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.
— Wayne Dyer
I'm living on this positive mind frame where I'm only attracting positive things. I'm controlling my energy, I'm eating right, I'm meditating, I'm in the gym, I'm doing all this stuff I'm supposed to be doing. I'm past that young, immature way of thinking. I just want to be great.
— Shameik Moore
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. 
— John Ruskin
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
— Joseph Addison
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— Honore de Balzac
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe