“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
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“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.”
“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”
“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.”
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
“The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.”
“The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.”
“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.”
“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”
“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
“My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.”
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'”
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
“All great achievements require time.”
“Success has always been a great liar.”
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
“If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.”
“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”
“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.”
“Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.”
“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”