Be Great Quotes

Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the wrong size.

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

James was truly an unknown quantity. He was really, physically drained in the spring and he got dinged in the fall. We brought him along slowly, but he has a great future. He's a natural receiver.

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

People who believe in themselves and in a cause greater than themselves can achieve great things-as long as they have a well-intentioned leader to point them in the right direction.

The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

A great man is made so for others.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

Magical music never leaves the memory.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.

A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.

I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

You shall become the person you are.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.

It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities.

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

You should know how great things were before you. Even so, they're better still today. I can't think of who I was before you ruined everything in the nicest way.

I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.

A great passion has no partner.