Unless you choose to do great things with it it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things but only what is just whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Only passions great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning if they be accompanied by a bad training are a much greater misfortune.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
If you cannot do great things do small things in a great way.
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
It does not take much strength to do things but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy and great things in that which is small.
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.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
Harmony makes small things grow lack of it makes great things decay.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Great people talk about ideas average people talk about things and small people talk about wine.
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
I was on the yearbook staff so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so one could blame the companies but really economically they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
Everybody wants you to do good things but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry have children and go to their football games.
We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.