Be Great Quotes

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

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

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

Write while the heat is in you.

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.

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'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.

I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!

There are a lot of other parts on this team that do great things to make it easy for me to go out there.

Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.

Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."

I have a great love for cuisine, so Im always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.

You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.

Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead.

Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player... Only if we had him at Napoli... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?

It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

Our household is built on love and respect. And we don't really let negative vibes stay too long. It's worked out. I got a great family, great kids.

It's not about finding great people, it's about becoming a great person

I love my dog. I hate bankers. I have issues with women. In my head, I’m a great guy.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

Well usually if I'm having a sh***y day, I don't post anything. I don't go out just to tell everyone I'm having a great day, even if I'm not.

Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.