Great Quotes

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.

Today I am at the head of the strongest Army in the world, the most gigantic Air Force and of a proud Navy. Behind and around me stands the Party with which I became great and which has become great through me... Our enemies must not deceive themselves - in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united than today.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself, and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Writing ... is the great invention of the world.

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.

The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day - for burning fire-crackers!!!

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

He is not great who is not greatly good.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.