200 FAMOUS QUOTES · GREAT
Read the best great quotes on greatness, ambition and achieving great things from Vivekananda, Kabir, Churchill, Carlyle, Lao Tzu, Thiruvalluvar and more.
“While thinking of objects, attachment to them is born; from attachment comes desire; from desire, anger; from anger, delusion; from delusion, loss of memory; from loss of memory, destruction of reason; and with the destruction of reason, one perishes.”
The Bhagavad Gita
“The good is one thing, the pleasant another; both bind a man. Blessed is he who chooses the good; he who chooses the pleasant misses the goal.”
The Upanishads
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”
Swami Vivekananda
“Greatness knows itself.”
William Shakespeare
“Small to greater matters must give way.”
William Shakespeare
“Great griefs, I see, medicine the less.”
William Shakespeare
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
William Shakespeare
“Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.”
John Milton
“The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”
Thomas Carlyle
“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
Seneca
“And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.”
The Bible (Genesis 1:16)
“For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them?”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 4:7)
“For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.”
The Bible (Psalm 57:10)
“Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.”
The Bible (Psalm 119:165)
“Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.”
The Bible (Jonah 1:17)
“The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.”
The Bible (Psalm 145:8)
“If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 10:4)
“For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 16:9)
“O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.”
The Bible (Psalm 104:1)
“For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.”
The Bible (Psalm 103:11)
“The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few.”
The Bible (Luke 10:2)
“And there was great joy in that city.”
The Bible (Acts 8:8)