“I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”
--Genghis Khan
Showing posts with label Great. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great. Show all posts
Life's Mirror
“The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.”
--Thomas Dreier
--Thomas Dreier
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Topics of Discussion
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
--Eleanor Roosevelt
--Eleanor Roosevelt
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Great Players
“Average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached. Great players want the coach to tell them the truth.”
--Nick Saban
--Nick Saban
Venture To Do Something
“It is always the adventurers who accomplish great things.”
--Baron de Montesquieu
--Baron de Montesquieu
Liberty's Safeguard
“Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.”
--Abraham Lincoln
--Abraham Lincoln
Independent of Public Opinion
“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”
--Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Become Great
“You can only become great at the things you are willing to sacrifice for.”
--Maya Angelou
--Maya Angelou
Liberal Largess
“A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.”
--G. Gordon Liddy
--G. Gordon Liddy
Destroyed from Within
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.”
--Will Durant
--Will Durant
Love Is A Bonfire
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
--François de La Rochefoucauld
--François de La Rochefoucauld
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Shield of the Law
“The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.”
--Andrew Jackson
--Andrew Jackson
Stoop To Conquer
“In wishing to be above men, put yourself by words below them, and, wishing to be before them, place yourself behind them.”
--Lao Tzu
--Lao Tzu
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Rule of Law
“A society can only remain great when its rulers obey the laws so its people can obey the rulers.”
--Solon
--Solon
Great Opportunities
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
--Charles Swindoll
--Charles Swindoll
Dwarf Men
“A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”
--John Stuart Mill
--John Stuart Mill
Desire for Safety
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
--Tacitus
--Tacitus
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