Great Quotes

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
-Albert Einstein

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
-Mark Twain

"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be great is to be misunderstood."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He is great who confers the most benefits."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."
-Abraham Lincoln

"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world."
-Mark Twain

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-Mark Twain

"Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great."
-Mark Twain

"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."
-Aristotle

"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."
-Plato

"The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does."
-William Blake

"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
-George Bernard Shaw

"To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
-George Bernard Shaw

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."
-Aeschylus

"Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
-Thomas Jefferson