Great Things Quotes

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.

Happiness is attractive. Once you decide to be happy, you attract great things into your life.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.

A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.

There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's.

High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

You have to believe that you deserve great things. You have to believe that you deserve to win each fight that you're in. You have to believe that you deserve to become a champion.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say

If you don't conquer your fear, you are going to miss out on some great things in life.

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.

He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

Life is never what it seems - and that’s the great thing about it

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

I've never believed anyone could put more pressure on me than I put on myself. People expect great things from me. I expect great things from myself.

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity.

The great thing about getting older is living life.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

There are a lot of other parts on this team that do great things to make it easy for me to go out there.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.