Famous Quotes

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

Moliere 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 Moliere

• "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."

• "The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."

• "Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts."

• "There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage."

• "Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired."