Be Great Quotes

I love Salt Lake City. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

No great city has ever been known for its abundant supply of parking.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

I've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life.

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

Great souls are harmonious.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

Many great ideas need refreshment and deeper analysis. "Freedom," for example, is a great idea but it has become a cliché.

Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.

I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because print media is suffering.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But, you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever though; so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.

I decided to focus on the things I could control and let go of the things that were out of my hands. That lesson has provided me with great relief; it has brought great things into my life.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

Great people create great acts of kindness.

I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

The great hope of society is in individual character

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

When you finish for the day, write a note reminding yourself of what you plan to do next. This helps you to remember today's great idea when you get back to work tomorrow.

Nobody thought I would be a great coach.

Nobody thought I'd be a great coach. I'm the kind of guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.

I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Take heart! Many great things have been done by people in poor mental health.

Great news for Pres Obama. He watched football all weekend and tomorrow he will receive the Heisman trophy. Next week he's going to watch NASCAR. Move over, Jimmie Johnson!

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

My goal has been to be a great character actor.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

Human sympathy has its limits.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.