Be Great Quotes

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.

Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

The great thing about bushcraft is that wherever you go, the skills go with you.

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

Great moments await around every corner.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading.

Great moments are born great opportunity.

I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

Dare to dream of your great success.

We learn of great things by little experiences.

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

I have great faith that there's a master plan and that even if we don't understand it and even if it's heartbreaking, there's a reason for everything. And I hold on to that.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a better place.

It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.