You are that vast thing that you see far far off with great telescopes.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career but that also builds self-confidence no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
You know be able to do something great in your life you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
And that is the reason why this victory is great because different players have made contributions to the win.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that so really I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.
Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise but little danger.
I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say then always my body comes first.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both but by too much prudence may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway three-quarters nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something I go all the way.
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed I should instantly close with the offer.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.