Great Quotes

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

John F. Kennedy

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Lee Iacocca

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

Woodrow Wilson

Great hopes make great men.

Thomas Fuller

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Winston Churchill

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

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Lao Tzu

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Benjamin Disraeli

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry A. Kissinger

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

Yousef Munayyer

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

Walt Whitman

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Martin Luther

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

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Mignon McLaughlin

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Bertrand Russell

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

E. M. Forster

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

Calvin Coolidge

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

Dan Gable

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare