Quotes about Great

“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.”

“As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.”

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”

“The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.”

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

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”

“The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial look, but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face.”

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”

“I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.”

“There are two types of men: the great and the small.”

“I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”

“At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.”

“It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.”

“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”

“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.”

“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”

“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.”

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“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.”

“We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.”