Famous Quotes

"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• "It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

• "Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

• "The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

• "It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."

• "Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected."