Be Great Quotes

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.

Life is great when your in shape!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

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

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

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

Only great men have great faults.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

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.

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.

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

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

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

My favorite thing about movies is the ending and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.

We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

You did it! Congratulations! World's best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It's great to be here.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.