“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
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“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”
“Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.”
“I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.”
“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”
“I always entertain great hopes.”
“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”
“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”
“An index is a great leveller.”
“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.”
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”
“Men are only as great as they are kind.”
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
“To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.”
“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.”
“The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.”
“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”
“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”
“What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.”
“Great hopes make great men.”
“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”
“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”