Great Quotes

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

Ziggy Marley

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

John Hoeven

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

Rudy Giuliani

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

Steven Seagal

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Coretta Scott King

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Erich Fromm

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Theodore Roosevelt

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

H. L. Mencken

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.

William Blake

Great loves too must be endured.

Coco Chanel

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Blaise Pascal

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

Vera Wang

Being is the great explainer.

Henry David Thoreau

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Plato

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

Henry Louis Gates

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Albert Einstein

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Elbert Hubbard

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero