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David Hume on great
Author: David Hume“Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.” -David Hume
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Fyodor Dostoevsky on great
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Golda Meir on great
Author: Golda Meir“Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.” -Golda Meir
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Sallust on great
Author: Sallust“Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.” -Sallust
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Carl Jung on great
Author: Carl Jung“Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.” -Carl Jung
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Henry Ward Beecher on great
Author: Henry Ward Beecher“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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Fran Lebowitz on great
Author: Fran Lebowitz“Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.” -Fran Lebowitz
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Marcus Aurelius on great
Author: Marcus Aurelius“A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.” -Marcus Aurelius
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Thomas S. Monson on great
Author: Thomas S. Monson“The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.” -Thomas S. Monson
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William Arthur Ward on great
Author: William Arthur Ward“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” -William Arthur Ward
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Socrates on great
Author: Socrates“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” -Socrates
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Robert Kennedy on great
Author: Robert Kennedy“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” -Robert Kennedy
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Chanakya on great
Author: Chanakya“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.” -Chanakya
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Mother Teresa on great
Author: Mother Teresa“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” -Mother Teresa
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Cyrano de Bergerac on great
Author: Cyrano de Bergerac“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.” -Cyrano de Bergerac
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Renee Olstead on graduation
Author: Renee Olstead“If you’re picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren’t going to stay in touch after graduation.” -Renee Olstead
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Patina Miller on graduation
Author: Patina Miller“All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in ‘Sister Act’ and haven’t looked back since.” -Patina Miller
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Lee Pace on graduation
Author: Lee Pace“A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.” -Lee Pace
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Alexandra Guarnaschelli on graduation
Author: Alexandra Guarnaschelli“I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, ‘By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.’” -Alexandra Guarnaschelli
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Peter Jurasik on graduation
Author: Peter Jurasik“At the end of four years’ time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there’s your numbers.” -Peter Jurasik
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Jerry Moran on graduation
Author: Jerry Moran“One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don’t often do them.” -Jerry Moran
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James D’arcy on graduation
Author: James D’arcy“It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I’d become an actor.” -James D’arcy
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Olivia Wilde on graduation
Author: Olivia Wilde“I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.” -Olivia Wilde
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Julie Taymor on graduation
Author: Julie Taymor“Americans in particular are myopic. They’re not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That’s what I did. I went to Indonesia.” -Julie Taymor