3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
3 December 2020 Jean Genet A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
3 December 2020 Rosalynn Carter A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
3 December 2020 Coretta Scott King Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
3 December 2020 Henry Ford One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
3 December 2020 Henry Ford What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
3 December 2020 William Shakespeare Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
3 December 2020 Charles R. Swindoll We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
3 December 2020 Anna Magnani Great passions, my dear, don’t exist: they’re liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
3 December 2020 B. R. Ambedkar A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
3 December 2020 Jim Rohn Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
3 December 2020 Dave Brubeck I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
3 December 2020 Edmund Spenser Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
3 December 2020 Rainer Maria Rilke No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
3 December 2020 Elsa Schiaparelli 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.
