Famous Quotes About great

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.