Famous Quotes

"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

Henry Ward Beecher 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 Henry Ward Beecher

• "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

• "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."

• "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

• "Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments."

• "Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one."