Quotes about Great

“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”

“Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.”

“That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.”

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”

“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”

“He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.”

“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.”

“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”

“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

“Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.”

“A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.”

“He was as great as a man can be without morality.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

“An out-and-out fast bowler is one of the great sights in cricket.”

“A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.”