Great Quotes

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

~ Octavio Paz

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

~ Leonard Bernstein

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

~ Epictetus

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

~ Nat Turner

I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.

~ Samantha Mumba

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

~ Theodore Zeldin

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

~ W. Clement Stone

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time.

~ Willard Boyle

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

~ John Oliver

Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.

~ Henry Cloud

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

~ Debbie Ford

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

~ Karen Armstrong

I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.

~ Brad Feld

The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just a member of the band. Nobody felt like he was above anybody else. We had such a good time.

~ Tom Petty

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

~ Edwin Way Teale

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

~ Sojourner Truth

Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.

~ Olivia Culpo

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

~ Garry Kasparov

I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

~ Salma Hayek

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

~ Steve Buyer

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

~ Kate Millett

All Americans should take great pride in the men and women serving our nation in Iraq and in the courage, determination, resilience and initiative they demonstrate each and every day. It remains the greatest of honors to soldier with them.

~ David Petraeus

We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.

~ Donald Trump

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

~ Walt Whitman

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

~ Anna Quindlen

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

~ Stephen Fry

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

~ Ashley Tisdale

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

~ Kathleen Sebelius

And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

~ Salma Hayek

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

~ Angelina Jolie

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

~ Bill Hicks

First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.

~ Vito Fossella

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

~ Lee Iacocca

We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.

~ Otto Schily

For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really great book, there's a new movie, there's a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life.

~ Patti Smith