Be Great Quotes

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

Donald Trump is going to be an unconventional president. I really think we have a great opportunity in front of us to fix problems, produce results, and improve people's lives.

Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.

King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.

Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

I've done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn't been the best career choice, but it's been a really great life choice.

Marvel does a great job of making their characters human.

I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.

Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.

Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

My 21st birthday was awesome. I was in L.A., and it was great. I had a bunch of friends that came out. The night ended up in a completely different direction than we thought it was going to go.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.

It's hard to get a great idea sometimes. When you get a good one and you have a good script, you want to keep shepherding it to make it happen.