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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.


Livy

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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.
MENCIUS Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is...
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not ...
CHINESE PROVERBS I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive....
JOHN C. CALHOUN I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to do nothing and succeed.
ROBERT SCHULLER I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great reli...
GEORGE ELIOT Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.
MENCIUS I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed
ROBERT H. SCHULLER I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
DEMOSTHENES He is a great man. There is nothing I could say to tease him.
CLARENCE THOMAS There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literat...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Most likely Congress will do little or nothing but talk a great deal and hold hearings,
BYRON DORGAN I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER The first
sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act
great. Before y...
DALE CARNEGIE There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes eve...
G. K. CHESTERTON There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes ev...
G. K. CHESTERTON Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answe...
CHINESE PROVERB We feel for the young man. It's an awful thing when a player of great promise has such a run of bad ...
GREG COOPER No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
THOMAS CARLYLE If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great li...
LAO TZU Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
LORD BYRON In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not ans...
CHINESE PROVERB Expect great things -- attempt great things.
WILLIAM CAREY Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of...
OG MANDINO There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
OLIVE SCHREINER You could tell immediately there was a great history to this guy, as revealed in the pilot. He has a...
DOUGRAY SCOTT It is important to keep in mind that great risk exposure does not automatically guarantee greater re...
BARBARA STEINMETZ If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Anything that happens now is great. I don't know when I will retire. I'm sure the end is out there, ...
CATELLO MANZI Perhaps I will be a great man...I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my ...
LORRAINE HANSBERRY When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in ...
CHARLES HODGE I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble.
MENNONITE PROVERB The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he ...
GERALD STANLEY LEE Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.
NIKKI SIXX Sure, there were times when I hated the man but like all great coaches he was a great teacher. He wo...
LARRY CONLEY It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemi...
AHMED CHALABI If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not a...
LAO TZU If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not a...
MAHATMA GANDHI The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every ...
THEODOR HERZL It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
CONFUCIUS It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great
CONFUCIUS Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man
MARK TWAIN You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT Rogues, would you live forever?
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and th...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
FREDERICK THE GREAT In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
LEO THE GREAT They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for Go...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT Talents go by nature not by birth.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
ALFRED THE GREAT I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of...
THE GREAT PACIFIST My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please,...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do i...
CATHERINE THE GREAT So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, u...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I praise loudly. I blame softly.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes de...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT He who defends everything defends nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by n...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
CATHERINE THE GREAT

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