How To Be Great Quotes

On a quick side note, I would argue that--much like Samuel L. Jackson--I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

True invective requires great imagination.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

A great man is one sentence.

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

A great artist is never poor.

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort.

I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

I worked with Lady Gaga for a day on a video shoot. It was crazy; we had a lot of fun. I had a great time.

In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

Believe in yourself, believe in something higher than yourself, be selfless, exercise, have great expectations and execute day by day.

It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

That's exactly what [Donald] Trump says, Putin is a great leader. We should love Putin. He has a high popular and everybody oh, fine, you guys - oh, that's terrific.

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

How thankful I am, how thankful we all must be, for the women in our lives. God bless them. May His great love distill upon them and crown them with luster and beauty, grace and faith.

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Life is the great teacher.

It's important to resolve to yourself, 'I will absolutely win!' Then this firm commitment will serve as the wellspring of great wisdom and courage that surges forth from within.

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Barry Goldwater once said ruefully, and I know how he feels. "It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be President . . . except me."

I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.

When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that.

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas!

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.