Great things Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great things Small things
If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountain top is not breathtaking. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance. — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature. — Alfred William Howitt Copy Share Image
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Part of the magic of the experience lay in the sheer beauty of the setting: the breathtaking sight of the high mountains, the sweep… — Joseph Jaworski Copy Share Image
“When we are on high (Mountain), we can see everything else as small. "Our glory and our sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is a Precious Mountain Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare A cold moon rises through the pines Layer upon layer of bright clouds… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
No matter how many great things you say about Jacques Pepin, there's always more. Through his books and videos, he taught me the importance… — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Second letter from Mom: So! What if you colored the world? This still does not seem a great thing. In fact it seems very… — Elena D. Calin Copy Share Image
I have so much respect for the country, I don't like blanket indictments. There's a lot of really great things about this country. — Cris Collinsworth Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I don’t know, I don’t know that I’m missing anything. I just think too much sometimes. Sometimes I’m even happy because I’m so engaged… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done. — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
