Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.
There was no luck. There was only preparation meets opportunity, and recognizing the latter and knowing when to seize it was ninety percent of any great success.
Great change outside, is the outcome of greater chang inside-out from your soul and your mind
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
I do not see how we could have come to know the greatness of God without that hint furnished by the greatness of the material universe.
Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
Great ideas and small consistent actions with love can change the world from above.
Flowers grows in silence, quietly, slowly, passionately, with great love and with all its power just perfectly.
Always give chance for the things you don't want. Cause sometimes they turn out to be the great things you'll ever have.
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
A leader's job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists, and to create an environment where that greatness can emerge and grow.
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
There will be pain." (Qyburn) "I'll scream." (Jaime Lannister) "A great deal of pain." (Qyburn) "I'll scream very loudly." Jaime Lannister)
no punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin
There will never be "the right time" in your life to do a great thing. You must create that time and greatness will follow.
And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things" - 1 Nephi 16:29
All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.
That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.
