Be Great Quotes

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.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

All truly great art is propaganda.

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.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

Great art changes you.

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

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

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

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

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

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.

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

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

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.

The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

Go, send, or disobey.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.