Be Great Quotes

Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

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

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

A great book is like great evil.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade

Great leaders are never too proud to learn.

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

Happiness is attractive. Once you decide to be happy, you attract great things into your life.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

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

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

Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain!

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.

I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.

Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout.

I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!

God and I have a great relationship but we both see other people.

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.