Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you’re pampered, you get lazy.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen.
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.
I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.
Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn’t change a thing!
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.
It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it’s great to be alive!
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Don’t believe the hype. I don’t care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don’t care how much they say you’re great, don’t believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you’re supposed to do.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world… not make a fast buck.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.
I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation; not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example – I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
Life should be great rather than long.
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
Cartoons make kids happy, and that’s a great feeling.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
I’m not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the church.
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
I’m lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Great political leaders risk unpopularity, patiently explain their case and confront prejudice, bigotry and vested interests.
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.
I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
I feel like life is really short, and it’s important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it’s a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can’t escape challenges; they are part of life.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
That’s another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.
My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
It’s a great feeling when your work is appreciated.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.
Experience is a great teacher.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
