Be Great Quotes

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.

I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.

Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life’s next adventure.

I put the number 7 on my t-shirt because this is the number of my championships but also because it was the number of Barry Sheene, who was a great hero of mine and a truly great racer.

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Great companies are built on great products.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

I really love what [Donald] Trump is doing. He is doing a great job of exposing the republicans for what they really are.

You should make great things, not promising great things.

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

I think that it's a great time to be a designer.

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.