Be Great Quotes
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.
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.
My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.
I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.
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.
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.
I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
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.
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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.
He has become a great leader of his team, a guy that has evolved in terms of his role within the team.
Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year . . . by cosmetic surgeons.
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.
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.
Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.
I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.
Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.
I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?
As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.
All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in.
Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.
There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work.
Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.
Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.