Great - Quotes & Sayings

The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.

Jon Ronson

There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.

Tahj Mowry

In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.

Thierry Henry

Keep it simple. I usually have my hair up in a ballet bun and a great pair of sunglasses for when I'm on the go. On vacation, all you need is a sexy dress and great perfume, paired with a gorgeous red lip.

Lily Alridge

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

Tom Hopkins

A great manager is someone who says, 'You come to work with me, and I'll help you be as successful as possible; I'll help you grow. I'll help you make sure you're in the right role; I'll provide the relationship for you to understand and know yourself. And I want you to be more successful than me.'

Curt Coffman

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

John Lennon

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Herbert Hoover

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Plato

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway

Great companies are built on great products.

Elon Musk

To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.

Valentino Rossi

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

Larry Wilcox

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Charles R. Swindoll

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Che Guevara

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

Lorraine Toussaint

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

Sallust

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Niels Bohr

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

Dr. Seuss

A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you're hooked.

Danny Meyer

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

John F. Kennedy

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Jane Austen

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Robert M. Pirsig

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Nikola Tesla

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Henry Rollins

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

George Eliot

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

George Bernard Shaw

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Wayne Gretzky

If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Marcus Aurelius

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Vincent Van Gogh

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Zig Ziglar

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

To me, there's no great chef without a great team.

Daniel Boulud

We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.

Otto Schily

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Meryl Streep

Go for great. Own your game. Be kind. Get big things done.

Robin S. Sharma

I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I'm with an angel.

Benjamin Clementine

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

David Suzuki

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!

Karen Civil

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.

Chris Evans

I feel very blessed to have a partner in life who supports me, who is enthusiastic about what I want to do, who has been a great father, and who will be a fabulous grandfather.

Hillary Clinton