Famous Quotes

"Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be."

Horatio Nelson 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 Horatio Nelson

• "Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone."

• "Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."

• "First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can."

• "Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be."

• "My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."