Be Great Quotes

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

Even great men can be corrupted

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

God gives you the sight, the right, and the might to do great things, but you have to develop the fight!

We must be young to do great things.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

The great thing about an attitude is that it's yours and you can change it.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

That’s kind of where all my money goes. I’m going to be a very broke girl with a really great wardrobe.

To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.

Great men have great dogs.

Give a guy a girlfriend and a great job, he doesn’t need therapy.

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.