Be Great Quotes

You're offering a great service. People are tuning in. So continue to find great people, continue to do what you're doing. And do it better than your rivals. I know that's easier said than done.

These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's a great relationship to have with the setting sun.

By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better.

I know I love my kids and I know they love me. I know I have beautiful friends and a great family, and I know I've been really blessed in this life.

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Great art can only be created out of love.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed

One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

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.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

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

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

All truly great art is propaganda.

It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.