No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

The little may contrast with the great in painting but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other that is which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party faction and division of society.

Our Generation has had no Great war no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength but perseverance.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

He was a great patriot a humanitarian a loyal friend provided of course he really is dead.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

More enduringly than any other sport wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Whatever I have tried to do in life I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Unless you choose to do great things with it it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.

Every great man every successful man no matter what the field of endeavor has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few but we can't have both.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.