Famous Quotes

"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged."

Helen Keller 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 Helen Keller

• "The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."

• "Alone we can do so little together we can do so much."

• "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

• "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

• "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."