3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
3 December 2020 Ice Cube I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
3 December 2020 James Dean There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
3 December 2020 Gwyneth Paltrow I love being. There’s so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn’t it great just being?
3 December 2020 Anne Frank Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
3 December 2020 Confucius He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
3 December 2020 Norman Cousins Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
3 December 2020 John Wooden Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
3 December 2020 John Lennon Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
3 December 2020 Marlene Dietrich There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
3 December 2020 Plutarch It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
