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Wilma Rudolph on great
Author: Wilma Rudolph“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” -Wilma Rudolph
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Jan Peter Balkenende on great
Author: Jan Peter Balkenende“Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.” -Jan Peter Balkenende
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Coretta Scott King on great
Author: Coretta Scott King“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” -Coretta Scott King
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Michael Jackson on great
Author: Michael Jackson“The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.” -Michael Jackson
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Rabindranath Tagore on great
Author: Rabindranath Tagore“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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Robert Benchley on great
Author: Robert Benchley“I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.” -Robert Benchley
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Marcel Proust on great
Author: Marcel Proust“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.” -Marcel Proust
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Jodie Foster on great
Author: Jodie Foster“It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me.” -Jodie Foster
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Morihei Ueshiba on great
Author: Morihei Ueshiba“Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.” -Morihei Ueshiba
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Sun Tzu on great
Author: Sun Tzu“It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.” -Sun Tzu
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Aesop on great
Author: Aesop“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” -Aesop
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Milton Friedman on great
Author: Milton Friedman“The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way.” -Milton Friedman
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Robert Louis Stevenson on great
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson“When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on great
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Bill Gates on great
Author: Bill Gates“I’m sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn’t on our radar screen. We were just making great software.” -Bill Gates
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John Wooden on great
Author: John Wooden“Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.” -John Wooden
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Erich Fromm on great
Author: Erich Fromm“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.” -Erich Fromm
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Jose Rizal on great
Author: Jose Rizal“It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.” -Jose Rizal
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Katharine Hepburn on great
Author: Katharine Hepburn“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.” -Katharine Hepburn
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Jacqueline Bisset on great
Author: Jacqueline Bisset“A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” -Jacqueline Bisset
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Voltaire on great
Author: Voltaire“The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.” -Voltaire
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Martin Luther on great
Author: Martin Luther“The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.” -Martin Luther
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Peter Marshall on great
Author: Peter Marshall“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” -Peter Marshall
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Dan Gable on great
Author: Dan Gable“More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill – none have wrestled without pride.” -Dan Gable
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Louis D. Brandeis on great
Author: Louis D. Brandeis“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” -Louis D. Brandeis