Be Great Quotes

1. "You have All it takes to be Great, See the unseen, Give the Good in your hand now to Activate that Great Grace for Greatness."
Author: Agu Jaachynma N.E.

2. "...I overheard Dorothy talking to Mr Montrose and she was telling Mr Montrose that she thought that I would be great in the movies if he would write me a part that only had three expressions, Joy, Sorrow, and Indigestion."
Author: Anita Loos

3. "Uh- you shouldn't mock orange if I were you - Why not?*everyone sings* He will He will mock youHe will He will mock you*orange starts singing*Hey buddy bannanaYou live in a habanayou small like a cabanabut sdon't worry it's gonna be great somedayReally?Orange: Nope..Not really*Everyone sings*He will He will mock youHe will He will mock you."
Author: Annoying Orange

4. "Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that?"
Author: Artemus Withers

5. "The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great."
Author: Bela Karolyi

6. "I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad."
Author: Britt Daniel

7. "My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance."
Author: Carre Otis

8. "Hope starts as a promise made to yourself, the first drop of rain in a parched land, the first step onto dry earth for a shipwreck survivor. It is a listening crowd for a lonely heart.What we hope in must be greater than us; therefore, we will always need something greater than man to believe in. Good and evil may be a necessity to perceive our world, but hope is a prerequisite for life."
Author: Christopher Hawke

9. "I know if I kiss her right now it'll be great. But I don't want her to have great. I want her to have incredible."
Author: Colleen Hoover

10. "I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed."
Author: Condola Rashad

11. "To do everything at once, you have to be lousy at everything. To be great, you have to focus on very few things — most of us can barely handle more than one."
Author: Dan John

12. "In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India."
Author: Devdutt Pattanaik

13. "I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself."
Author: Diana Gabaldon

14. "We grow small trying to be great."
Author: E. Stanley Jones

15. "For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?"
Author: Eric Topol

16. "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great."
Author: Fernando Flores

17. "To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above."
Author: Fernando Pessoa

18. "When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing."
Author: Fiona Apple

19. "Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that."
Author: Gerard Butler

20. "I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great."
Author: Gore Verbinski

21. "It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great."
Author: Havelock Ellis

22. "Life's too short. It's got to be great."
Author: Hugh Dillon

23. "Ben: You know what's really great about baseball? Lindsey Meeks: Hmm? Ben: You can't fake it. You know, anything else in life you don't have to be great in - business, music, art - I mean you can get lucky. Lindsey Meeks: Really? Ben: Yeah, you can fool everyone for awhile, you know? It's like - not - not baseball. You can either hit a curveball or you can't. That's the way it works... Lindsey Meeks: Hmm. Ben: You know? Ben: You can have a lucky day, sure, but you can't have a lucky career. It's a little like math. It's orderly. Win or lose, it's fair. It all adds up. It's, like, not as confusing or as ambiguous as, uh... Lindsey Meeks: Life? Ben: Yeah. It's - it's safe."
Author: Jimmy Fallon

24. "In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first."
Author: John Steinbeck

25. "I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like you've got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser."
Author: Jon Ronson

26. "...maybe great books were coiled within him like springs, books that could have separated inside from outside."
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

27. "In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality."
Author: Katori Hall

28. "I just wanna learn and I wanna grow. I wanna consume as much information as possible. I wanna be great."
Author: Kid Cudi

29. "Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.

30. "How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow."
Author: Mary Shelley

31. "To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life."
Author: Nancy Reagan

32. "We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater."
Author: Neil Tennant

33. "Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond."
Author: Nicolas Berggruen

34. "To be great in life, you must be determined. You can only discover yourself when you are self motivated ."
Author: Osunsakin Adewale

35. "That may be great for a married couple, but I think it is a stupid idea for two people trying to get to know each other! If you are a young man trying to get to know a young girl, for heaven's sake, don't take her to a movie!"
Author: Richard G. Scott

36. "He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great."
Author: Robert Creeley

37. "We shall be greatly enlarged by you in our sphere, to preach the gospel in the regions beyond. – 2 Corinthians 10:15–16"
Author: Robert J. Morgan

38. "For your life to be great,your faith must be bigger than your fear."
Author: Robin S. Sharma

39. "Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?"
Author: Sara Gruen

40. "To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of thepast and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. Iwas motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others."
Author: Scott Douglas

41. "To protect the world as we know it, there were three races of hunters created to police and destroy the Daimons. We are called the Pyramid of Protection. Dark-Hunters pursue those who feed on humans, blood, and souls. Dream-Hunters go after the energy- and dreamsuckers, and Were-Hunters stalk the slayers. (Talon)I guess what I don't understand is why you don't have one group that does it all. (Amanda)Because we can't. If one person or group was strong enough to walk all four realms of existence, they would be able to enslave the world. Nothing and no one could stop them. And the gods would be greatly pissed. (Kyrian)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

42. "He took one look at me and said, ‘Damn, you cleaned up better than I thought you would.' (Grace)I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

43. "Joan Baxter (Lauren Graham): "You want to build a boat?"Evan Baxter: "It might be something fun for the family. Go sailing on the lake. I don't know. [looking at his feet, under his breath] Be great in case it floods or something…"
Author: Steve Carell

44. "Only fools want to be great."
Author: T.H. White

45. "A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy."
Author: Theodore Roosevelt

46. "I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried."
Author: Tom T. Hall

47. "It is because he comes from so far away that nothing can seperate us. Nothing, no distances, no years, can be greater than the distance that's already between us, the distance of our sex, the differance of our being, our minds; that gap, that abyss which we bridge with a look, with a touch, with a word, the easiest thing in the world. Look how far away he is, asleep. Look how far away he is, he always is. But he comes back, he comes back, he comes back"
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

48. "There is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault is it? And then, is it not when the fall is lowest that charity ought to be greatest?"
Author: Victor Hugo

49. "I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things. It is not the earth, it is not America, who is so great, it is I who am great or to be great…"
Author: Walt Whitman

50. "At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good."
Author: Walter Mosley

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