Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

If you cannot do great things do small things in a great way.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work Stick-to-itiveness and Common sense.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words so lesser minds have a talent of talking much and saying nothing.

It does not take much strength to do things but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement and I've done that sort of thing in my life but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

For a competitive junkie like me golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers they would continue to open their wallets.

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy and great things in that which is small.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing in great crises to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.