Great Quotes

Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

~ Donald Trump

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

~ John Stuart Mill

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

~ Honoré De Balzac

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

~ Andrew Jackson

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

~ John Adams

The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.

~ George William Russell

I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'

~ Josh Keaton

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

~ Richard Holloway

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

~ Samuel Smiles

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

~ Henry Kissinger

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.

~ James Belushi

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

~ Josh Billings

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

~ Carroll Quigley

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

~ A. J. P. Taylor

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

~ William Shenstone

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

~ Louisa May Alcott

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

~ Spiro T. Agnew

He who has great power should use it lightly.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

~ José Martí

I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

~ Victoria Beckham

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

~ Daniel Morgan

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

~ Joel Osteen

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

~ Michael Leunig

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.

~ Jacques Pepin

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

~ Johnny Marr

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

~ Chuck Yeager

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

~ Jimmy Johnson

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

~ Mike Love

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

~ Michelle Obama

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

~ Harvey Fierstein

I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families' lives.

~ Michael N. Castle

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

~ Chuck Jones

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

~ Henry Ossawa Tanner