Be Great Quotes

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

Jack Welch is someone who I have always admired. In India, Narayana Murthy is someone who I have great respect for.

I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

I have great respect for press freedoms. At the same time, however, a politician also has the freedom to decide whether he or she will accept an invitation to appear on a show or not.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

Every great team that I've been on, the offensive linemen was the bell cows of the whole team.

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.

A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him any more.

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.

All great success is preceded by failure.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.

My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

I don't know that I am a great leader at all, I just know I really care about what I do.

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.

Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.

The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness.

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.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.