Great Events Quotes:

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

- Marcus Aurelius

source: Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Positive Thinking, Power Of The Mind, Inspirational Bullying

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Life's Too Short, Life Is Simple

You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way... Instead of asking what you could do, you ought to have been asking what needs to be done.

- Steven Brust

source: "The Paths of the Dead". Book by Steven Brust, 2003.

topic: Suffering, Phrases, Asking, Great Events

It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

- Patricia Moyes

source: Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”

topic: Interesting, Events, Retrospect, Chain Reactions, Inevitability

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

- Jonathan Swift

source: Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.202

topic: Spring, Mean, Rivers, Great Events

When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too.

- Roger Federer

topic: Thinking, Careers, Events, Great Events

It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.

- Ahmed Chalabi

source: "The Manipulator" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2004.

topic: Enemy, Events, Rewards, Great Events

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

- Paul Keating

topic: Thinking, Events, World, Rise Of China, Positive Things

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

- Alan Cranston

topic: Adventure, Ideas, Leader, Glamorous Life, Great Events

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.

- Mercy Otis Warren

topic: Running, Mind, Addresses, Countrymen, Great Events

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

- Matthew Simpson

topic: Faith, Past, Events, Great Events

Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones.

- William Whewell

source: William Whewell (1856). “Lectures on the Progress of Arts and Science, Resulting from the Great Exhibition in London ...”, p.22

topic: Art, Discovery, Iron, Locality, Great Events

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

- Karen Armstrong

topic: Eagles, Events, Matter, Bald Eagle, Great Events

The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music.

- Doug Flutie

topic: People, Autism, Community, Great Events

Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.

- Tom Kristensen

source: "Off the clock: Tom Kristensen interview". Interview with Eric Thompson, www.nzherald.co.nz. July 23, 2011.

topic: Winning, Average, Race, Great Events, Motorsports

There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindaban and the colloquy on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindaban created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanized Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.

- Sri Aurobindo

source: "Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita" by Paul Molinari, 1993.

topic: Europe, Crucifixion Of Christ, Meditation, Events In History, Devotional

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Eleanor Roosevelt (2009). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers”

topic: Rights, Today, Approval, Proclamation, Declaration Of Human Rights

The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .

- John Maynard Keynes

source: John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Atheist, Character, Escaping, Great Events

Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Power, Men, Hair, Great Events

The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

- Queen Victoria

topic: Powerful, Voice, Touching, Jenny, Great Events

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.106, Lulu.com

topic: Parent, Events, World, Epoch, Great Events

There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

- Queen Elizabeth II

topic: Giving, Perspective, Long, Great Events

Great events have sent before them their announcements.

- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

topic: Events, Announcements, Great Events

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

- Kelly Miller

source: Kelly Miller (1919). “History of the World War for Human Rights”

topic: Russia, Events, Collapse, Great Events

It feels amazing - really, really great! It was so nice to be out there and be cherished by all the people. It has been a great event, the best you can experience as an athlete. We are very happy with how everything has worked out in the competition. Everything was very good and we're really happy we accomplished our goal.

- Margaretha Sigfridsson

topic: Nice, Athlete, Goal, Great Events

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

topic: Peace, Eye, Perspective, New Eyes, Incomparable

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

source: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.115, re.press

topic: Philosophical, Giving, Pressure, Great Events

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

topic: Writing, Character, Fate, Great Events

The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.

- Martin Luther

topic: Life, Heart, Power, Calvary, Great Events

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Clever, Opportunity, Men, Great Events

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.

- Stefan Zweig

topic: Disappointment, Loneliness, Stress, Great Events

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Giving, People, Ordinary, Great Events

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Memories, Flower, Passion, Great Events

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Writing, Interesting, Novelists, Great Events

We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, we find no deficiency in respect of time, nor any limitation with regard to power. But time is not made to flow in vain; nor does there ever appear the exertion of superfluous power, or the manifestation of design, not calculated in wisdom to effect some general end.

- James Hutton

source: James Hutton (1788*). “Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).”, p.86

topic: Order, Design, Littles, Exertion, Great Events

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Positive, Heart, Law Of Attraction, Incessantly, Great Events

I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

- Ernie Harwell

topic: Player, Events, Lucky, Great Events

One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for the age of meteorites; and the estimated time for the tidal evolution of the Moon's orbit (though this is much rougher), all agree in their testimony, and, what is far more important, the red-shift in the nebulae indicates that this date is fundamental, not merely in the history of our system, but in that of the material universe as a whole.

- Henry Norris Russell

topic: Independent, Moon, Years, Great Events

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

- Walter Savage Landor

source: Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.243

topic: Lying, True Life, Biographies, Great Events, Too Deep

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

- Lois McMaster Bujold

source: Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.69, Baen Books

topic: Men, Events, Young, Great Events

I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

- Isadora Duncan

topic: Ocean, Taken, Sea, Great Events

People wait for the big moment, the great event, and forget that happiness comes from building steadily on the small daily things of life. People wait for that special moment to express love and forget that love springs from thoughtfulness practised every day. People wait, but waiting is future and NOW is always the time.

- Meher Baba

topic: Spring, People, Waiting, Special Moments, Thoughtfulness

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Birth Life And Death, Suffering, Events, Birth Life, Great Events

History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

- Max Lucado

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Circles, Events, Movement, Great Events

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

- John Burns

topic: Events, Way, Action, Great Events

By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.

- John Adams

source: John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.197

topic: Mean, Sleep, Cutting, Assemblage, Great Events

One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.

- Nikola Tesla

topic: Art, Men, Training, Literature And Art, Great Events

The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness, and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed.

- Joseph Fort Newton

topic: Squares, Discovery, Justice, Great Events, Nile