We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

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.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Experience is a great teacher.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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?'

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

The price of greatness is responsibility.