Great - Quotes & Sayings
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund BurkeGreat is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John AdamsInnovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.
Megan SmithA great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
Margaret HeffernanMy message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamToday's a beautiful day, and yesterday was a beautiful day, so that means it's a great life.
GnashGreat journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.
Rupert MurdochA little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar WildeCould a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David ThoreauGreat people have great values and great ethics.
Jeffrey GitomerGreat acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao TzuWho in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Lewis CarrollAt the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.
Chip ConleyI always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.
RihannaThe principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. MonsonGreat leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
Simon SinekI think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
Edmund HillaryNo one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
Charles E. WilsonYou've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
Kate McKinnonA great tailor is like a great personal trainer - they tailor that suit to your natural physique.
JidennaMy height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.
Russell WilsonThe great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
Maeve BinchyI look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.'
Emmanuelle ChriquiThe great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. KennedyWhatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
Maya AngelouMan becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma GandhiI long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen KellerA great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
Danny MeyerTo be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
Princess DianaGood artists copy, great artists steal.
Pablo PicassoI just love hanging out with good company on a great, fun golf course.
Rich EisenA battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Frederick DouglassThe great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Dorothy L. SayersFor a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.
Nigel BarkerI had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from different countries, Venezuela, from Brazil, and they all played soccer, and I was on the soccer team, and I developed great relationships with them.
Donald TrumpThe Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton FriedmanRhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore RooseveltIt's always great to get to do what you love and to do something that hopefully people will see and love.
Casey WilsonWhere the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolo MachiavelliI praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
Ernie HarwellWe want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.
Jerry SeinfeldThe great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Sigmund FreudI see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt WhitmanThe best way to avoid falling prey to the opinions of others is to realize that other people's opinions are just that - opinions. Regardless of how great or terrible they think you are, that's only their opinion. Your true self-worth comes from within.
Travis BradberryDo you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint AugustineWhat's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.
Andy WarholThat's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.
Jeff FoxworthyWithout an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
Martha StewartThey've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.
Sarah Silverman