Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent Van Gogh
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. – Honore de Balzac
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. – Carl Jung
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. – Sallust
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. – Moliere
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. – Bryant H. McGill
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. – Huey Newton
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. – Homer
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. – Demosthenes
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. – Abraham Lincoln
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. – Albert Einstein
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. – Albert Einstein
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. – John Ruskin
