Be Great Quotes

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

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.

Great leaders rally people to a better future.

I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year . . . by cosmetic surgeons.

He has become a great leader of his team, a guy that has evolved in terms of his role within the team.

Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.

I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his…shirtless body, really.

Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.

I really want be of great value for the team.

Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.

Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.

I'm not a great one for looking back.

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

All great men are partially inspired.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

Each of us has the potential to contribute... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

Giving great service requires the right people and the right service tools.

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.