Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mohandas Gandhi

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mohandas Gandhi

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mohandas Gandhi

A small leak can sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin

Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
Muhammad Ali