It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.
The man who throws a bomb is an artist because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Nothing great is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripen.
The '20s ended in an era of extravagance sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash but then the country picked itself up again and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
My father always used to say that when you die if you've got five real friends then you've had a great life.
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think Hey isn't it great just being?
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Thrift is of great revenue.
On a level plain simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.