Greatest Quotes

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Roy Orbison is the greatest singer in the world.

To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would-I don't know, I wish it upon everybody. It's heaven.

The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

Mother illuminated to me the kindliest light this world has ever known, which has endowed literature and the theatre with their greatest and richest themes: love, pity and humanity.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

The greatest good is what we do for others.

He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children and to be engaged in peaceful occupation-this is the greatest blessing.

The greatest prayer is patience.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.