Be Great Quotes

Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but it's an excellent piece of advice.

I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.

I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

New York is the great stone desert.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.

I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Great souls suffer in silence.

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses.

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

It's going to be great. A lot of the players are coming. I wasn't here when they put (Jackson) up in the rafters. But to have him here as my number goes up, it brings back a lot of great memories.

I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out. I have a great family and we spend all our time together. I work hard and play hard with them.