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

Charles R. Swindoll

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

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Jack Kerouac

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Fran Lebowitz

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.

Helen Keller

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

John Dewey

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

Moliere

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Publilius Syrus

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.

Salvador Dali

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Anaxagoras

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

Bertrand Russell

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Blaine Lee

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

Lee Iacocca

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.

Carl Jung

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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.

Louis Kahn

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

Chuck Yeager

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

Robert Kennedy

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

Dante Hall

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Chanakya

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

George Eliot

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

Irving Berlin

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

John C. Maxwell

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

Leonard Bernstein

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

Beau Bridges

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Honore de Balzac

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

Pope John XXIII

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.

Daniel Morgan

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

John F. Kennedy

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

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

William James

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Winston Churchill

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Pablo Picasso

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.

Vince Lombardi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mae West

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

Pindar

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

Henry Van Dyke

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

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

B. R. Ambedkar

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

William Shakespeare

Experience is a great teacher.

John Legend

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

Joe Paterno

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

Robert Frost

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

Walt Whitman

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Jack Kerouac

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

Denis Diderot

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

Nelson Mandela

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.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Thomas S. Monson

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

Napoleon Hill

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Katharine Hepburn

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

Pierre Corneille

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

Antoni Gaudi

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Leslie Caron

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

William Arthur Ward

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

Jeff Bezos

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

Mencius

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Montesquieu

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.

Florence Scovel Shinn

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Herodotus

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

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Tom Hopkins

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.

Harlan Coben

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

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

Marcus Aurelius

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

Thomas Huxley

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

Washington Irving

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.

Paul Henderson

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

Alfred A. Montapert

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.

Max Lucado

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

Ray Charles

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

Socrates

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill