Greatest Quotes

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.

I have no regrets about being 'Doctor Who'. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won;cause Ali is the greatest.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

In a way, 'On the Road''s greatest victory is that nobody's eyes will be opened any longer by reading it; the last time I met any young people who were actually 'on the road' was when I covered Occupy St. Louis. Those few, dirty kids were fighting a battle even they couldn't articulate.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.