Quotes about Great

“A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”

“A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.”

“Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.”

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

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”

“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”

“The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.”

“It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.”

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

“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.”

“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”

“The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'”

“They missed a great opportunity to shut up.”

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”

“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.”

“Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him.”

“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”

“I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.”