3 December 2020 Charles Dickens Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
3 December 2020 Tom Cruise I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can’t do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I’m going to do something, I go all the way.
3 December 2020 Gore Vidal In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
3 December 2020 Emmet Fox It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
3 December 2020 Steven Seagal I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
3 December 2020 Shelby Foote I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
3 December 2020 Kelly Osbourne I feel good in my own skin because I’ve accepted the fact that I’m me. That’s what’s so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody’s different.
3 December 2020 Martha Graham Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
3 December 2020 Homer The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
3 December 2020 Carlos Ghosn Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
3 December 2020 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
