Quotes about Great

“I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.”

“I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.”

“As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.”

“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”

“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.”

“Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.”

“Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!”

“No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.”

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”

“The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.”

“Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.”

“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”

“London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”

“Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.”

“Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.”

“Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.”

“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”

“A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.”

“Small aim is a crime; have great aim.”

“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”

“To become a great player, you've got to show real dedication and commitment to football, and you've got to be very humble and hard-working. And, above all, you've got to fight to make your dreams come true.”