3 December 2020 Helen Keller Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
3 December 2020 Bjorn Borg My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
3 December 2020 John W. Gardner We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
3 December 2020 Herman Melville To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
3 December 2020 Henry Van Dyke The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
3 December 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
3 December 2020 Earl Nightingale A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
3 December 2020 Mick Jagger The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
3 December 2020 William Shakespeare Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
3 December 2020 Otto von Bismarck The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
3 December 2020 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
3 December 2020 Charlie Chaplin Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
