I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.
