I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.