Be Great Quotes

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that

The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

I have jobs that I've preferred more than others simply because I've gotten to meet and make friends with great people. I've pulled at least one very close friend from every project I've done.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers.

May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.

A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with courage.

One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

The Government's business is in sound condition.

It's a great time to be alive and be a computer weenie.

With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is complete.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

I am walking today because of chiropractic care I received years ago. I predict a great future for the science of chiropractic.

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him.

A fantastic positive ATTITUDE makes a great day! SMILE!

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.