Famous Quotes About great

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.