The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Plautus

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.
Donald Trump

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.
Will Smith

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
Pablo Casals

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Eric Hoffer

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric Hoffer

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Eric Hoffer

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
Richard M. Nixon

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Henry Ellis

And what is the greatest number? Number one.
David Hume

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron