Great Quotes

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

To achieve great things, we must first dream.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

All great things have small beginnings.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day.

When women gather, great things will happen.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

People talk about me because I am a great man

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.