Be Great Quotes

I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.

Write while the heat is in you.

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.

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

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.

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

One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

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.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

A fantastic positive ATTITUDE makes a great day! SMILE!

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

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.

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

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

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

With stores like Topshop and H&M you can find really great stuff, but I do like designer things as well, and I'm lucky because they approach me to wear their stuff. I really love Miu Miu.

Know the great men of your age.

To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children.

I do think that really great music will divide people, and people will love and hate it at the same time.