Great Quotes

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

John F. Kennedy

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Benjamin Disraeli

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

James Madison

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Benjamin Franklin

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Thomas Carlyle

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Tom Hanks

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Mark Twain

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Adam Ant

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Theodore Roosevelt

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Henry Ward Beecher

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Maya Angelou

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Victor Hugo

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Oscar Wilde

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

Richard Dawkins