Quotes about Great

“It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.”

“The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.”

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

“Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!”

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”

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

“When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.”

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

“I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.”

“The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.”

“Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.”

“Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.”

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”

“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”

“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.”

“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”

“The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class and upper-middle-class African Americans, creates the illusion of great progress.”

“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”

“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”

“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.”