Quotes about Great

“You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.”

“Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.”

“Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.”

“If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.”

“A great tailor is like a great personal trainer - they tailor that suit to your natural physique.”

“Suffering is one of life's great teachers.”

“Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.”

“A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.”

“Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.”

“Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.”

“Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.”

“Power is the great aphrodisiac.”

“I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.”

“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”

“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”

“If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.”

“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”

“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”

“It's a great honour to be recognised and appreciated by your fellow colleagues.”