Be Great Quotes

Great Spirit, When we face the sunset when we come singing the last song, may it be without shame, singing 'it is finished in beauty, it is finished in beauty!'

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

I would love to work with Guillermo del Toro and J.J. Abrams. I think they are creative geniuses that are constantly producing great work, and they're two people that I would just love to work with.

I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it.

The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.

I am a great supporter of [Matteo ] Renzi, he is young, he knows how to communicate, he's our great hope.

Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

Great men should not have great faults.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.

Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal.

Occasionally in my travels I meet people who have pushed too far into the nagual. These individuals are not too balanced but they have made great journeys in the unknown.

The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.

You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.

If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great job, then he'll be much more powerful than President Bush.

Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn't mean they are not great teachers.

We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.

Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

When I feel good, the crowd is behind me, have a great spirit, I think I can be very tough to beat.

Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future.