Top 100 Great People Quotes
#1. There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open.
Don Rittner
#2. When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.
Nido R. Qubein
#3. I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.
Emma Stone
#4. Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them.
Suzy Kassem
#5. I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.
Demetri Martin
#6. Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it!
Cornel West
#7. I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.
Dakota Goyo
#8. Our country doesn't win anymore. We don't win on trade. We don't win on the military. We can't defeat ISIS. We're not taking care of our great people, the veterans. We're not taking care of them.
Donald Trump
#9. We have a tendency to worship great people but do not adapt their ideas in our lives.
Girdhar Joshi
#10. As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'
Chris Messina
#11. There are no great people. There are only great topics.
Jean Giraudoux
#12. Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what's possible, they say they can effect themselves.
Alexandre Dumas
#13. Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill.
Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.
George Washington
#14. I've got such great people around me. They don't really care if they make me angry. A lot of teams, they're afraid to make the artist angry, because they don't want to get fired and all that stuff. My team's pretty good about letting me know when to get in line.
Justin Bieber
#15. It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.
David Plotz
#17. I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
Ice Cube
#18. A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
Barbara Corcoran
#19. What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#20. Not every dream grows on every land, so you got to watch out! "Sugar cane" dreams should find the environment where there is flooding of great ideas from great people. It will die off if it is planted at the place where the drought of discouragement is a well cherished culture!
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
Patricia Clarkson
#22. To be a success, you will have people walk out on you, walk over you, and walk away from you. If these things didn't happen, you wouldn't have such great people who walk with you, walk beside you, and walk into your life. Cherish the subtractions and you will be blessed with additions.
Robert J. Braathe
#23. You're offering a great service. People are tuning in. So continue to find great people, continue to do what you're doing. And do it better than your rivals. I know that's easier said than done ...
Richard Branson
#24. I like being surrounded by great people.
Paul Walker
#25. Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy.
Philippa Gregory
#26. I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."
Maya Rudolph
#27. There are great people in life who give you inspiration to keep going and get through the hard times. I have been blessed to have such role models in my life. It would be a privilege if achieving my dream could inspire the next generation.
Michelle Payne
#28. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.
Jo Brand
#29. Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#30. When you work with great people, you learn - about film, about clothing, about life, about sex.
Guido Palau
#31. Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God
Muhammad Ali
#32. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill
#33. All great people had experienced dark times and moments of doubt but they find inner strength to overcome these difficulties. Persistent determination and enthusiasm fuel the hope within their spirit to press forward for the ultimate aim of achieving the goals they have set for themselves.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great!
Mark Twain
#35. I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.
Dave Eggers
#36. Sure, sure, I'm as sure as Day that you all are a great people. You all are son of "Author". Author in Upper-case is "He", who takes care of each one of us.
Ajay Pandey
#37. On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.
Marilyn C. Nelson
#38. It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
Abbey Lincoln
#39. What shocked me, and what I wasn't prepared for, was just how brutal and how unethical some people can be in the NFL. I mean, there were some great people, but there were some real snakes, too. I was like, 'Holy cow!' But it made me a better person, and it got me ready for other things.
Terry Crews
#40. Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.
Andrew Mason
#41. I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.
Eric Bana
#42. All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.
Mark Victor Hansen
#43. Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
Nas
#44. We just want to have great people working for us.
Sergey Brin
#45. Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.
Mary Russell Mitford
#46. I've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life.
Naomi Campbell
#47. The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
John C. Maxwell
#48. I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.
Taylor Swift
#49. Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people?
Onyi Anyado
#50. I really just want to do the best at everything I do. I just want to have all the great people around me that I feel is family, as well as my friends, and I have an amazing girlfriend. I think having love in your life is most important.
Evan Ross
#51. There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#52. I've lived a lot since I was 16, so I've got more things to write about. I've started playing around the world and met some great people along the way who've taught me lots of things.
Gin Wigmore
#53. I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.
Anton Yelchin
#54. There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
Calvin Coolidge
#55. There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
Henry Ward Beecher
#56. Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.
Woodrow Wilson
#57. But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.
Marc Jacobs
#58. I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.
Steve Jobs
#59. Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.
Marianne Williamson
#61. I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.
Christopher Egan
#62. When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.
Brandy Norwood
#63. If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.
Theodore Roosevelt
#64. I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
Peter Landesman
#65. I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
Victoria Beckham
#66. Even though we are supposed to be low caste and poor our vote also has the same value and validity as that of great people.
Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
#67. All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.
Kelly Miller
#68. I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence.
Jessica White
#69. Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.
Paul Arden
#70. Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.
Rick Warren
#71. Many great people had been considered to be boring, like Nigel Mansell, but anyone who had read the racing driver's autobiography, "Clutch Down, Dick Out", would know that perception was way off the mark.
Mark Jackman
#72. Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.
Calvin Coolidge
#73. No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him.
Pawan Mishra
#74. No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of lymph nodes and put a bunch of weird stuff in it and pack it up in plastic cans and plastic bins, and let's eat that way. That'll be great." People don't choose that.
Frank Fairfield
#75. I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.
Stephanie Cutter
#76. I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
Hansie Cronje
#77. While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.
Evan Williams
#78. All our officers and fighters must always bear in mind that we are the great People's Liberation Army, we are the troops led by the great Communist Party of China. Provided we constantly observe the directives of the Party, we are sure to win.
Mao Zedong
#80. Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
#81. Since I moved to Blackpool, I've met a lot of great people, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be as successful as I was because I'm settled off the pitch.
Charlie Adam
#82. I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.
Tom Colicchio
#83. You don't know how lucky you are, my dear. Don't waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.
Danielle Steel
#84. Asset bubbles have happened even without not-so-easy money. And, in a depressed economy, where alternative uses of money are not great, people are going to bid up the prices of profitable corporations and stuff like that.
Paul Krugman
#85. I've got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I've got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.
Matthew McConaughey
#86. I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors.
Connie Chung
#87. It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Doris Lessing
#88. I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.
Moira Kelly
#89. A year has taught me that really great people make stupid mistakes sometimes.
Maggi Myers
#90. The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.
Ray Liotta
#91. Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.
Laurie Metcalf
#92. It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.
Dakota Fanning
#93. Yeah, 'Feed the Dog' is just a really fun, teenage movie with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez and all these other great people. It's just so silly-funny, and my character's super-fun.
Heather Graham
#94. I think great bosses hire great people. 'A' people hire 'A' people, but 'B' people hire 'C' people; they're worried they might be shown up ... they're concerned that that person might make them look bad.
John Stumpf
#95. Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
Bear Grylls
#96. It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
Simon Sinek
#97. But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
John Legend
#98. When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions
Myles Munroe
#99. I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#100. Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.
Andy Andrews
