Words matter. These are the best Great Things Quotes from famous people such as Kevin O’Leary, Jesse Jackson, Ashlyn Harris, LeSean McCoy, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world’s second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn’t get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
I’ve done a lot of great things playing for this country and this national team in the youth stage.
There are so many great things about this country, but certain things we can’t take over and over and over again.
I love life. I think it’s fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
I’ve just come to try to see the positive in everything. Despite people saying ‘The Room’ is the worst movie or whatever, it’s brought about a lot of great things.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
A lot of great things are going on. In many ways, the past 30 years have been the best in world history. But we can do much better. I prefer the word hope over optimism.
One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it’s really a nice break, when you’re writing super intense stuff like ‘Coldtown’, to be able to write something a little lighter – calm down and do something different.
That’s the great things about games as social experiences. You play with all your friends across social groups. You see young girls as well as young boys playing. These are kids in school, people in offices, in pubs, all having fun together.
I have big hopes and big dreams and aspirations to do great things in the NFL.
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
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.
Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong – they just don’t know when to stop.
You’re never too old to start learning, and you’re never too young to aim high and achieve great things.
Uribe and I have very good relations. I owe him loyalty, I admire him, he did great things for our country, and I think that because of what he did, I can now concentrate on different issues, different from what he concentrated on.
One of the great things about Marvel is that they allow you to take pieces of the character and storylines from the comics and doing your own thing with that.
One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
One of the great things about now vs. 10 or 12 years ago is we can see how the audience responds and the audience has an opportunity to be a community that engages each other and engages us and we’re excited for that conversation.
I felt a ton of pressure in ’08. A lot of great things were expected of me right out of the gate, and I brought some of that on myself with those great early results. But I wasn’t a good enough player to make a run every fourth or fifth tournament. I wasn’t as good a player as my ranking indicated.
I’m the guy who has everything it takes to be heavyweight champion of the world. It’s not just about being great inside the ring: it’s about being able to do great things outside of the ring. Not everyone has that. I love to be out there with the people.
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.
One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.
Colorado is known for many great things.
It’s not the way I threw the football – it’s not particular games that I won – but that they remember that here’s a guy that believed, that worked hard. Although things didn’t always go in his favor, he continued to press through, and with his faith in himself and his faith in God, he was able to accomplish great things.
One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It’s bigger than me.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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 did have my beginnings in doo-wop music; I had a group called the Tokens in Brooklyn. They went on, of course, to do ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ and a lot of other great things. I went on as a soloist. But I still love doo-wop music.
One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It’s nothing fake or jive. They’re giving sincere appreciation. And it’s not that easy to express.
Great things that can happen when you’re doing a movie.
When government gets out of the way, the people achieve great things because of the promise of great rewards.
One of the great things about ‘Jericho’ that is a parallel with ‘Over There’ is, in this country, we tend to forget the news we don’t want to know about. We’re so oversaturated with media and other images that we can turn our head a little bit.
I want to be more than the heavyweight champion. I want to do great things.
I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
With the right people, culture, and values, you can accomplish great things.
It doesn’t matter what a family looks like as long as you get the love, support and encouragement to be whatever you want to be and do great things in life.
One of the great things about music is how it can take you places.
I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That’s one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
I can’t wait to tell my kids, you know, one day that I played with the best football player ever, Aaron Donald. Hopefully, you know, we can do great things, win Super Bowls and do lot of great things in L.A.
One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it’s ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we’ve done many great things, especially since 9/11.
It’s actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It’s cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.
When I was out in Portland there was a lot of really great things about it. But being home, I’m a New Yorker, and I think I’ve really enjoyed being back out here.
Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.
I see a minimum living wage as a long-term solution, but I’m not sure that’s my favorite. I think society benefits if all the human race is empowered and aspiring to do great things. Giving people the skill sets to do great things will take work.
Jon Scoffield was an incredible director and producer at ATV. I met him when I was 30 and he made great things happen in my career. He’s still alive, but we’re no longer in touch.
Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.
I grew up on the south side of Chicago in the 1960s, and I think there was a synchronicity of events that inspired me to be an astronaut, and, of course, the backdrop is nothing less than Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. That was a time in our nation where we aspired to great things, and we achieved them.
Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
One of the great things about being in entertainment is you have access to the media. People pay attention to you.
People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.
