Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

There is a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that have not. You just do the best you can.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I am Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I am running for president of the United States.

Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Show me a great actor and I will show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We are going to change that in November.

When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.