Greatest Quotes

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

~ Paddy Ashdown

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

~ Charles Kettering

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

~ Ryan Holiday

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.

~ Michael Franti

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

~ Charles Kettering

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

~ Pablo Picasso

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

~ Victor Hugo

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

~ Barbara De Angelis

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

~ Euripides

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

~ Alvin Toffler

If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!

~ Nathan Myhrvold

One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.

~ Simon Rattle

I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.

~ Beeban Kidron

I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view.

~ Ruben Blades

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

~ Sean Covey

Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.

~ James Murdoch

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

~ Dick Schaap

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

~ Tim Burton

Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.

~ Mark Frost

We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.

~ Edwin Powell Hubble

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

~ Sarah Brightman

The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.

~ Lucas Grabeel

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

~ Michael Jackson

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

~ James Cash Penney

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

~ Bob Marley

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

~ James Madison

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

~ Joseph Addison

The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and it's verification of claims that might be false. It's the greatest foundation for a society.

~ Greg Graffin

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

~ Albert Einstein

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

~ John Coleman

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

~ James Henry Breasted

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

~ Maria Montessori

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

~ Fred W. Friendly

I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and eras that most appealed to my students.

~ Rick Riordan

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

~ Katey Sagal

I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!

~ Meg Cabot

Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been - and will always be - our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

~ Michelle Obama

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

~ Peter Drucker

Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.

~ Birgitte Hjort Sorensen