Greatest Quotes

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.