Be Great Quotes

If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. Progress is disruption and change.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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. . .

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 think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

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.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

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.

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.

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

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

Good wine is good. Great wine is great. More wine is better.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.

Most busy people want to mentor someone great

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.

The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

We've been invited to come and believe the Unbelievable, receive the Inconceivable, and see beyond our wildest imaginations... Lord, we come with great expectations.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.