Quotes with great-grandfather

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 2185.

  • Theodore Roosevelt No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson No man was ever great by imitation.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge No man was ever yet a great poet, without begin at the same time a profound philosopher.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Avi Arad No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Frederick W. Robertson No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Samuel Johnson No one ever became great by imitation.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sir William Temple No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • John Ruskin No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a painter or sculptor, he can only be a builder.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Andrew Carnegie No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William Hazlitt No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Carlo Goldoni Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
    Pamela Fanciulla, Act I, Scene 6
    Carlo Goldoni
    Italian playwright (1707 - 1793)
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  • Boomer Esiason Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Edward Young None think the great unhappy, but the great.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Dickens Not in our heads but in our hearts lies the power, that leads us to great deeds.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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