Some Great Popular Quotes
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| Quotes | Author |
| Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. | Napoleon Hill |
| Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. | Honore de Balzac |
| Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. | William Shakespeare |
| To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. | Leonard Bernstein |
| Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings. | Publilius Syrus |
| The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. | Moliere |
| To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
| Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. | Demosthenes |
| Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| 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 |
| To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. | Montesquieu |
| The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. | William James |
| There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. | Maya Angelou |
| The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. | William Arthur Ward |
| Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. | Robert Kennedy |
| If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. | Napoleon Hill |
| Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things. | Joe Paterno |
| It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one. | Elbert Hubbard |
| To do a great right do a little wrong. | William Shakespeare |
| Life should be great rather than long. | B. R. Ambedkar |
| The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. | Muhammad Ali |
| Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? | Henry David Thoreau |
| You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. | Henry Rollins |
| What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. | Robert Hughes |
| Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. | Jack Kerouac |
| Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. | Fran Lebowitz |
| The greater the effort, the greater the glory. | Pierre Corneille |
| The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. | Oprah Winfrey |
| We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. | Charles R. Swindoll |
| After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. | Nelson Mandela |
| There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. | Leo Tolstoy |
| Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. | Washington Irving |
| Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. | David Hume |
| Great things are done when men and mountains meet. | William Blake |
| Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. | Vincent Van Gogh |
| The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart. | Mencius |
| One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. | Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. | Plato |
| All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. | Winston Churchill |
| The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. | Denis Diderot |
| All great achievements require time. | Maya Angelou |
| You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. | Tom Hopkins |
| It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am. | Muhammad Ali |
| The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. | Thomas S. Monson |
| I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious. | Vince Lombardi |
| All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. | Maya Angelou |
| Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. | John F. Kennedy |
| See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little. | Pope John XXIII |
| Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great. | Kenny Rogers |
| Great things are won by great dangers. | Herodotus |
| I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. | Thomas Carlyle |