Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: great

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

What makes a leader great is not the fact that she (or he) has all the answers, but the ability to inspire and empower us to find the answers.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

The great thing about pastry is there are so many avenues - it's very hard to get bored doing this.

For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.'

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.

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

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Great political leaders risk unpopularity, patiently explain their case and confront prejudice, bigotry and vested interests.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

I don't know of any great man who ever had a great son.

The target for every great champion is to play for the team.

It always feels nice to be associated with a team you share a great bond with.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it's just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I've done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she's 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.

A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.