Be Great Quotes

I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Only great men have great faults.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

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.

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

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.

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.

The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933.

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

Behind every great leader, at the base of every great tale of success, you will find an indispensable circle of trusted advisors, mentors, and colleagues.

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.

Great minds think alike.

Life is like a wrestling match- we struggle to fight but we never know that the only side that wins is the one with great love in it.

I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.