Great Quotes

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.

There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.

Why can't there be a lot of great women who are doing great things?

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

Great things are won by great dangers.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

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

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.

I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

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.

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.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

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