Top 100 The Greatest Of Quotes
#1. It does not matter where one comes from, one can achieve even the greatest of things in life.
Ndiritu Wahome
#2. The truest of loves transcends even the greatest of insecurities.
Solange Nicole
#4. Of the things I want my daughters to know the greatest of these is love.
Elin Hilderbrand
#5. To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
Plato
#6. The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.
Michael Scott
#7. Almost from childhood, she knew that a concentration camp was nothing exceptional or startling but something very basic, a given into which we are born and from which we can escape only with the greatest of efforts.
Milan Kundera
#8. Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities - yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings.
Steve Hagen
#9. The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.
Raheel Farooq
#10. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflection on human nature?
James Madison
#11. Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.
Jennifer Worth
#12. Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.
James Beard
#13. The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.
Socrates
#14. One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#15. America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
Alexander Graham Bell
#16. George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.
Marlon Brando
#17. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
James Madison
#18. The Peace Panda Says: Without The Heartfelt Prayer Of Love And Compassion ... Even The Greatest Of Temples, Mosques, Synagogues and Cathedrals Of Humanity Are Spiritually Dead. What is Humanity Without It's Spirit?
Timothy Pina
#19. To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.
Socrates
#20. It makes me very nervous and poorly,to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. However, your coming just at this time is the greatest of comforts, and I am very glad to hear what you tell us, of long sleeves.
Jane Austen
#21. The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.
Freya Stark
#22. Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings Him into active aid.
E. M. Bounds
#23. The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#24. If one abandons all other abilities and focuses his strength entirely on a single specialized skill, then he can overcome even the greatest of powers.
Sosuke Aizen
#25. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
#26. And the greatest of the poets, when he defined the poet, did not say that he gave us the universe or the absolute or the infinite; but, in his own larger language, a local habitation and a name.
G.K. Chesterton
#28. A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
Kenneth Tynan
#29. A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
Eugene Delacroix
#30. In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#31. Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.
Paul Hoffman
#32. The mind is the greatest of all human forces. Control the mind and you control the body.
Griffin Jay
#33. I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#34. Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life.
Ozzy Osbourne
#35. To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills
Sun Tzu
#37. It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
Lafcadio Hearn
#38. Everybody likes to say that Roger Federer is the Greatest Player of all time because its so nice to watch him play ... but you have got to throw in Nadal's Mind as well ... and That's the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!
Rafael Nadal
#39. Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain
#40. As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.
Murray Gell-Mann
#41. Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
David Seabury
#42. Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been. It is the greatest city because the fans will stick to a loser season after season. I have had my share of defeats, so I should know.
Charles Comiskey
#43. Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#45. If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!
C. Wagner
#46. The greatest of all heroes is One
whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.
Thomas Carlyle
#47. [Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.'
W. W. Rouse Ball
#48. But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
Viktor E. Frankl
#49. Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.
Thomas A. Edison
#50. Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Maurice Baring
#51. Yet to be daily committed to the greatest of all wars - the one waged within.
Fulton J. Sheen
#52. Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you've ever held dear with the greatest of ease.
Nicole McKay
#53. Maybe I really could be one of the greatest of all time. Who doesn't want to be a legend, right?
Kayla Harrison
#55. All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
Bertolt Brecht
#56. I could see it. I could almost feel it. When I proclaimed that I was the greatest of all time, I believed in myself, and I still do.
Muhammad Ali
#57. Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.
C.S. Lewis
#58. The spirit of the universe dances to its own tune. It connects everything - dust, rocks, plants, animals, men, stars and galaxies - by this mysterious rhythm. The greatest of peace comes from surrendering to its will.
Srini Chandra
#59. Every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.
George Orwell
#60. A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.
Aeschines
#61. Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.
Boyle Roche
#62. The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
Hippocrates
#63. I believe that if one fathoms deeply one's own neighborhood and the everyday world in which he lives, the greatest of worlds will be revealed.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#64. The Dagda, who reigned just before the coming of the Milesians, was the greatest of the De Danann. He was styled Lord of Knowledge and Sun of all the Sciences. His daughter, Brigit, was a woman of wisdom, and goddess of poetry. The Dagda was a great and beneficent ruler for eighty years.
Seumas MacManus
#65. Franklin's illness ... gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#66. Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.
Aristotle.
#68. The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted by and brought up by the science of genetics, and ecologists, being modest people, are apt to forget their distinguished parenthood.
John L. Harper
#69. Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.
Bobby Fischer
#70. The greatest of all riches is education
Jean Sasson
#71. Take a close look at nature and you'll see that every living creature is wired for mutation and variation. The fact that people can say, "I'm not the same person I used to be," is the greatest of all miracles.
Toni Sorenson
#72. I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#73. People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.
K. Martin Beckner
#74. The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#75. To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.
Plato
#76. Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#77. Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#79. To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
Seneca The Younger
#80. Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us also teach our children to see that the work assigned is carried to its completion and to take pride in what they accomplish.
L. Tom Perry
#82. I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
Thomas Jefferson
#83. The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
Ken Doherty
#84. Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.
Bill Cosby
#85. The thing that runs through the British film industry even today is a lot of unsung movies are financially the bigger ones. Even though they weren't always the greatest of movies, something in them was very potent which people loved.
Peter Capaldi
#87. I want to be undefeated for a while and end my career as one of the greatest of all-time.
Chris Weidman
#89. Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .
Epicurus
#90. The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.
Stephen Spender
#91. Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
Brian Greene
#92. Eucharistic adoration is the greatest of actions. To adore is to share the life of Mary on earth when she adored the Word Incarnate in her virginal womb, when she adored Him in the Crib, on Calvary, in the divine Eucharist
Peter Julian Eymard
#93. Your feminine heart has been created with the greatest of all possible dignities - as a reflection of God's own heart.
John Eldredge
#95. Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!
Patrick Henry
#96. The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.
Publilius Syrus
#97. The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems to the solution of which the mystic aspires. Supreme power, supreme wisdom, supreme delight lie in the far-off solution of this mystery.
Douglas Fawcett
#98. One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well, as many have discovered, you don't really know what you'll do in the dark till the lights go out.
James Carlos Blake
#99. Nobody knows what death is,
nor whether to man
it is perchance the greatest of blessings,
yet people fear it as if they surely knew
it to be the worse of evils.
Socrates
#100. Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
