
Life should be great rather than long.B.R. Ambedkar
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Life should be great rather than long.B.R. Ambedkar

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.Confucius

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.Mencius

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal.José Rizal

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.William Shakespeare

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.J.K. Rowling

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.Seneca

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground.Franz Kafka

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.Nelson Mandela

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.Martin Luther King Jr.

Silence is a source of great strength.Lao Tzu

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.Martin Luther King Jr.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.Niccolò Machiavelli

Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.Che Guevara

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.Epictetus

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of society.B.R. Ambedkar

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.Anatole France

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example.Nazim Hikmet
Great talent finds happiness in execution.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.Anatole France
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.William Shakespeare
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.Willa Cather
In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.Gautama Buddha
All the great performers I have worked with are fuelled by a personal dream.John Eliot
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.Napoleon Hill
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.Napoleon Hill
Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.William Shakespeare
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.Thomas Jefferson
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.Isaac Asimov
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.Lao Tzu
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.Honore de Balzac
Today, give a stranger a smile without waiting for it may be the joy they need to have a great day.Byron Pulsifer
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.Lao Tzu
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.Joan Didion
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.Pearl Buck
Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.Benjamin Franklin
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.Joe Paterno
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.Chanakya
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.Demosthenes
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.Seneca
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.Orison Marden
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.John Dewey
All great achievements require time.Maya Angelou
Great acts are made up of small deeds.Lao Tzu
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.Albert Einstein
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.Oscar Wilde
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.David Rockefeller
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.Mother Teresa
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.Harriet Tubman
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.Charles R. Swindoll
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.Alexis Carrel
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.Thomas Fuller
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.Lazarus Long
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.David Attenborough
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.Queen Victoria
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.Catherine the Great
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.Steve Jobs
I believe in giving more than 100 percent on the field, and I don't really worry about the result if there's great commitment on the field.M. S. Dhoni
I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.Tom Cruise
Custom is the great guide of human life.David Hume
A scientific institution has to be grown with great care like a tree — its growth in terms of quality and achievement can only be accelerated to a very limited extent.Homi Bhabha
He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.Vikram Sarabhai

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.Swami Vivekananda

No great thing is created suddenly.Epictetus

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.Rabindranath Tagore

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty.Winston Churchill

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.William Shakespeare

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.Rabindranath Tagore

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.Oscar Wilde

Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty.Winston Churchill

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.Blaise Pascal

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.Mother Teresa

There is no great genius without a touch of madness.Aristotle

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Don't be so humble — you are not that great.Golda Meir

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.Martin Buber

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.Mary Shelley