Great Things Quotes

It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.

Be not afraid of greatness some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil

~ William James

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

~ Warren G. Bennis

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

~ Vincent Voiture

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

~ Vincent van Gogh

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

~ Victor Hugo

It isn’t always necessary to achieve great things. Sometimes, just surviving is a great achievement.

~ Unknown

What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.

~ Steve Wozniak

When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

~ Saskya Pandita

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

~ Richard Milhous Nixon

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

~ Orison Swett Marden

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

~ Oprah Winfrey

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things a time for great things, and a time for small things.

~ Miguel de Cervantes

I don’t confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement.

~ Lois McMaster Bujold

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

~ Lewis Thomas

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness–great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

~ Jim Rohn

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn’t happen in the end.

~ James Barrett Scotty Reston

The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things.

~ I Ching

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness.

~ Grover Cleveland