“Mankind is made great or little by its own will.”
Topic
great
977 quotes
Quotes, most loved first
“To do a great right do a little wrong.”
“Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.”
“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”
“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”
“All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”
“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”
“No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.”
“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”
“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”
“Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.”
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”
“In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.”
“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.”
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”
“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”