Greatest Quotes

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

~ Gore Vidal

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

~ Dennis Prager

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

~ Boris Pasternak

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

~ Bernie Siegel

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

~ William James

A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.

~ Mandy Moore

Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.

~ Tina Brown

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

~ Alanis Morissette

The greatest news that I could ever say is that Jesus is Lord and Savior of my life. He is my friend. He is with me wherever I go. I'm so delighted to continue to grow in my relationship to Jesus.

~ Nick Vujicic

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

~ Thomas A. Edison

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.

~ Joseph Brodsky

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

~ Charles Spurgeon

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

~ Francis Bacon

One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

~ Tracy Morgan

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

~ Geoffrey Rush

We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.

~ Woody Harrelson

After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

~ Cat Power

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

~ J. R. Moehringer

Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.

~ Louie Schwartzberg

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

~ Muhammad Yunus

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

~ Denis Diderot

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.

~ Michael Phelps

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.

~ Francis Parkman

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

~ W. Clement Stone

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

~ Cathy Freeman

When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus; after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the church... When people preach that all you need is Jesus, they cut you and I off from one of the greatest sources of healing, which is the body of Christ. Don't go it alone - you won't make it.

~ Josh Mcdowell

Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

~ Ze Frank

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

~ David Ricardo

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

~ B. R. Hayden

Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change - the greatest environmental crisis of our time.

~ Frances Beinecke

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

~ Josh Fox

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

~ Elijah Wood

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

~ Olusegun Obasanjo

I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

~ Tom Brokaw

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

~ George Soros