Be Great Quotes

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.

Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

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.

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?!

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.

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.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother.

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

Andrea: "....I think a dog is a great idea. I just never pictured you with a mutant poodle.” Kate: “He isn’t a poodle. He’s a Doberman mix." Andrea: “Aha. Keep telling yourself that.

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.

I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.

I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country.

I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.