Famous Quotes

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first."

Harry S. Truman 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 Harry S. Truman

• "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

• "Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

• "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

• "The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

• "You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible."