How To Be Great Quotes
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.
One of the great things about Houston is that they police themselves. It's the way Boston was in the '80s. No hacks or thieves are tolerated in the community, and that's HUGE.
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
Many times, the game comes down to the final possession, the final shot. I want to become a better clutch performer. That's what separates the really good players from the really great players.
It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.
When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.
The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.
All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."
Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.
What great faith our Lord Jesus Christ asks of us - and how just that is. Do we not owe him such faith? It looks impossible to us, but Jesus is Master of the impossible.
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.
Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving
