Be Great Quotes

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'

Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.

The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfied unless I do great work.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.

The truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

It's always a really great thing to have an actor that does make you want to up your game. It naturally motivates you to do and try things that maybe you wouldn't necessarily do or try.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It's just good to be associated with that man. He's a great guy.

I have a great office.

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

Great events have sent before them their announcements.

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

Wine makes all things possible.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day.

The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.