How To Be Great Quotes

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.

I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

Who was the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at 'im.

Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.

Time never stops for the great ones.

We don't "have" a great day, we "make it" a great day!

I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are in there and that history that the writers have done such a great job at forming.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

I have a great relationship with the Mexican people...They love me, I love them.

I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.

How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

Expect great things, and great things will come.

I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one's will and the freedom granted by its uplifting, brings great joy.

The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.