Top 222 Great Things Quotes

I’m proud of the fact I was able to surround myself with great people who did great things, and it resulted in the Bulls being a global brand and winning championships and a factor in the community.
Jerry Reinsdorf
One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.
Larry Ellison
In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together – and I look forward to the challenges ahead.
Richard Burr
My dad has been to every soccer game that I’ve played in, both at the amateur level and at the professional level, and he always had great things to say whether we won or we lost, whether I felt great or not so great.
Alex Morgan
One of the great things that playwright A.R. Gurney does in ‘Sylvia’ is he gives language to the emotional gestures and energy that our dogs give to us when they’re communicating.
Annaleigh Ashford
At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write.
Toussaint Louverture
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
I like to bring people together so we don’t waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the wrong things when we know better. Corporate America makes great things and things that can hurt us. They have to be part of the solutions. There’s nothing to say you don’t make a profit by doing good.
Teresa Heinz
My father once told me when I was a young girl that I was destined to do great things. His belief in my abilities and ambition is rooted deeply in the spirit of Malawians; resilient and determined for a better Malawi and a better Africa.
Joyce Banda
I want to achieve great things.
Virgil van Dijk
I think ‘Believer’ and ‘Leland’ were such great things to have been a part of, and I learned a lot.
Ryan Gosling
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The ability to become more accessible, to spread a message further, and to share stories at a faster rate are great things to come from social media. As politicians, we have another platform with which we can reach people but also listen to them.
Jagmeet Singh
One of the great things about stargazing is that it’s immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.
Tim Ferriss
I thank God every day that I get a chance to do all these great things in a Timberwolves jersey.
Karl-Anthony Towns
I think I just pick really smart and motivated people to work with – people who are probably going to do great things anyway – and I just teach them what I know, maybe teach them how to think a little clearer than they did before, and then off they go.
Tucker Max
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you’re pampered, you get lazy.
Rob Zombie
Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.
Mencius
I haven’t done great things for Spain – I can’t lie – but when I play well, they should say so. They criticise me for my character, but I also have quality.
Diego Costa
One of the great things about being a professional football player is visiting countries and seeing cultures you might never see.
Manuel Neuer
I want kids to believe that I was just like they were, and to believe that they, too, can aspire to great things.
Ray Allen
Making a film is very gratifying and intoxicating. It does great things to your self-esteem, but pushing people and mentoring them to their full potential is far more fulfilling.
Mahesh Bhatt
You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn’t get going until they were much older. I think that’s much more instructive and educational.
Lloyd Blankfein
That’s one of the great things about being an actor. You get to learn all these things normal people don’t get to learn.
Jason Momoa
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
Henry Rollins
One of the great things about the ‘Iron Man’ franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don’t necessarily do action movies. Before ‘Iron Man’ you didn’t associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There’s an emphasis on repartee and wit.
Rebecca Hall
I feel like I’m doing some great things for American tennis.
Sofia Kenin
One of the great things about an open system like Android is it addresses all ends of the spectrum. Getting great low-cost computing devices at scale to the developing world is especially meaningful to me.
Sundar Pichai
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
Phillips Brooks
You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you’re also going to be a better business.
Dan Gilbert
The reason I joined Newcastle was because I could see we could do great things.
DeAndre Yedlin
NewSpace companies are staffed by young, new leaders who worship the giants who got us here, such as the recently passed Neil Armstrong, and are eager to work with NASA to do great things together – but we have to both give them a chance and get out of the way.
Rick Tumlinson
In my career, I’ve always felt like all great things came at once, and when something goes bad, it always seems that everything else seems to start going bad.
Charles Kelley
One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.
Hilary Swank
I’ve done a lot of bad TV and bad movies. I’ve also done some really great things.
Nikki DeLoach
What’s really important is to recognize when people do great things or when people pursue an initiative or show enormous generosity or heart or bravery.
Julie Payette
I’m looking to show the best of my abilities every day and to work to improve, and that means working to play well and put in good performances in the Premier League and with Manchester United to achieve great things and win titles.
Fred
The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We’re all meant to do different things, but there’s a lot of opportunity for us to do some great things.
Apolo Ohno
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Montesquieu
I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.
Katherine Heigl
Always, with any sort of politics, which is why we haven’t got any, you get extremists, and once you get extremists, you get people doing great things and terrible things… for every following of some sort, you get followers who distort things.
Siouxsie Sioux
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
I like seeing people achieve great things.
Tony Gonzalez
One of the great things about coaching is it’s a different challenge every day.
Brad Stevens
If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
Natasha Lyonne
The Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people – over 10 million with HIV/AIDS alone – saved countless lives. It’s extremely important to global health. They’ve done some really great things.
Ben Cardin
One of the great things about working on C. elegans was

One of the great things about working on C. elegans was the fact that it was transparent, and so when I first heard that seminar describing GFP, and realised, ‘I work on this transparent animal, this is going to be terrific! I’ll be able to see the cells within the living animal.’
Martin Chalfie
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac
There’s a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.
Mark Consuelos
I think that’s one of the great things about the Pittsburgh Steelers – we’re not a big free-agent team. We build guys up through our system to have a better understanding of our defense.
Troy Polamalu
Jose Aldo’s a legend. He accomplished many great things in his lifetime.
Aljamain Sterling