Quotes about Great

“A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.”

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

“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.”

“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”

“What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.”

“The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.”

“I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.”

“I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.”

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

“Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.”

“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“Two great talkers will not travel far together.”

“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”

“If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.”

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”

“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”

“Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.”

“I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.”

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”

“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.”

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”