Be Great Quotes

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

Curiosity is the starting point for great science.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.

The like factor is a great thing. Love cannot burn constantly. It's very hard for it to be so intense. But it's wonderful.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

Everything that comes our way is so we can grow and evolve, and if we look at it like that, then we have the great opportunity to step into who we always wanted to be.

Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.

Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.

I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap.

I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.

I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.

Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity will be long remembered with reverence.