Greatest Quotes

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds … It’s still the greatest move I’ve ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand – in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science.

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.