Be Great Quotes

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.

If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

I worked with Lady Gaga for a day on a video shoot. It was crazy; we had a lot of fun. I had a great time.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with (Gwyneth Paltrow) that's really valuable.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country.

I don't buy into the glory days thing. I think every time has its great things to it. The '60s were such a glorious time but it's easy to forget that there was all sorts of bullshit too.

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war.

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.

Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.

Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet tavern to talk, read or have a white wine spritzer.

Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

I think a lot of people have this idea that if you put something on YouTube you'll get famous overnight. It would be really great if that was possible, but that's not really how it works.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

He's got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That's what we were worried about.

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

Great men have big failures.

O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.

I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.

Trump's done nothing but be a great friend of Israel, and yet he's being tagged with anti-Semitism here. It doesn't make any intellectual sense.

As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great - says great things about our judicial system.

There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.

I love my family; they're such great people and they really love what I do.

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.