“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
Plato
ContentmentWealth
Great Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · GREAT
Great Quotes
Read the best great quotes on greatness, ambition and achieving great things from Vivekananda, Kabir, Churchill, Carlyle, Lao Tzu, Thiruvalluvar and more.
“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
Socrates
HonestyIntegrity
“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”
Aristotle
VirtueService
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
Marcus Aurelius
CuriosityLearning
“Because he does not contend, no one in the world is able to contend with him.”
Lao Tzu
HumilityStrength
“Having gained this, one thinks there is no greater gain; established in it, one is not shaken even by the heaviest sorrow.”
The Bhagavad Gita
Inner PeaceStrength
“All men that live are one in circumstance of birth; diversity of works gives each his different worth.”
Thiruvalluvar
EqualityActions
“Greatness, when it falls to the lot of the base, shows itself in arrogance.”
Thiruvalluvar
PrideCharacter
“Greatness will hide a neighbour's shame; meanness will his faults to all the world proclaim.”
Thiruvalluvar
KindnessGossip
“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”
Swami Vivekananda
Self BeliefStrength
“The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.”
Francis Bacon
AdviceTrust
“Divide and rule, a sound motto; unite and lead, a better one.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
LeadershipUnity
“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
InfluenceCharacter
“Greatly begin! though thou have time but for a line, be that sublime; not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
James Russell Lowell
AmbitionGoals
“For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.”
The Bible (Psalm 86:10)
WonderFaith
“And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.”
The Bible (Matthew 7:27)
FoundationsWarning
“Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things.”
The Bible (Joel 2:21)
HopeJoy
“Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
Seneca
AdversityCourage
“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”
Plutarch
CriticismAction
“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
Plato
KnowledgeEducation
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
Aristotle
GeniusEmotions
“The hard and strong will fall; the soft and weak will overcome.”
Lao Tzu
GentlenessStrength
“To cherish men of greatness, and make them all their own, of rare things is the rarest known.”
Thiruvalluvar
Good CompanyFriendship
“To live with men of greatness that their own excel, as cherished friends, is greatest power of all.”
Thiruvalluvar
Good CompanyPower
“Easy to every man the speech that shows the way; hard thing to shape one's life by what we say.”
Thiruvalluvar
ActionIntegrity