Be Great Quotes

There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to be great at anything.

A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.

People need service - great service where music is concerned.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly.

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.

Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

At some point you're like, gosh, this rehab is never going to end, and then all of a sudden I'm full strength and I'm about to go to my first competition. So I feel really great.

I don't think it's a mistake to put every great idea into the first movie, because I've always said there won't be a second movie if you go 'we'll hold back these ideas for another one.

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.

Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

Netflix is amazing 'cause they trust the creator to do their job, and they trust us to do our job. They're really smart and just let us do our thing and deliver a great job.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?

I've very fortunate to come from a great family who are extremely supportive of me and I'll always have them to fall back on.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

Out of the guys, I'm closest to Matthew Perry. He's a great friend. He cracks me up[on the set].

Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.

This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments.

Life is never what it seems - and that’s the great thing about it

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

Life is great when your in shape!

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

You have to believe that you deserve great things. You have to believe that you deserve to win each fight that you're in. You have to believe that you deserve to become a champion.