Top 100 Quotes About Be Great
#1. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady says he thinks it would be great if Donald Trump was president. Which is really weird because I thought Brady didn't like things that are filled with too much air.
Conan O'Brien
#2. If, by the way I play, I can be a role model or encourage someone else, that would be great.
Lisa Leslie
#3. Everything you need is already within you. The beauty of life is that your DESTINY lies always in your hands. The time has come for you to STEP UP and BE GREAT
Pablo
#4. Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
Victor Hugo
#6. Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.
Dan O'Brien
#7. We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
Dan Hawkins
#8. You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
Larry Fitzgerald
#10. Very often we talk about India and China, but not really Malaysia and Indonesia. The potential in the shift to the East is going to be great and very important for this country.
Tariq Ramadan
#11. Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great. Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me.
Beau Mirchoff
#12. I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on ... do something really artistic.
Andy Warhol
#13. There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.
Jackie Kennedy
#14. You want everyone to be great and funny. I'm not saying I'm great, but I'm funny.
Jon Lovitz
#15. When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.
Junior Dos Santos
#16. If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.
Demi Lovato
#17. I'm always begging people like James Brooks and Cameron Crowe to come to screenings, to see what they make of it, and they're always ridiculously helpful. They also keep me brave enough to commit to what I'm trying to do. They can be great cheerleaders for risk-taking.
Judd Apatow
#18. A man who endeavored to be better was already superior to the men who claimed to be great.
Penelope Douglas
#19. Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.
Jack Canfield
#20. I secretly harbor the fantasy of becoming an action star at any moment. I know I'd be great at it.
Elizabeth Banks
#21. I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.
Kristy Swanson
#22. We don't have to fight all the time. It can be done, and we will be great when we join together.
John Kasich
#23. I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in 'Sophie's Choice' - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great.
Heather Graham
#25. To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.
Geezer Butler
#26. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant and whoever wants to be first must be servant of all
Timothy Keller
#27. In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs ... and it'd be great to share them with someone else.
Luke Evans
#28. Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?"
"Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.
Paul Kalanithi
#29. He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great.
Robert Creeley
#30. It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.
Pat Cash
#31. In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#33. In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Kanye West
#34. It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.
Brad Sherman
#35. Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#36. I think someone like Carmen Electra would be great in 'Peepshow.' Really, though, I think anyone who can sing and dance would be great.
Holly Madison
#37. Everyone has the potential to be great, because everyone has the potential to serve." Martin Luther King
Margaret A. Hofmann
#38. When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
Robert Cailliau
#39. It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.
Robbie Williams
#41. Being someone's first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.
~unknown
Unknown
#42. Ben Says: Be great in your life & become as bright as the stars in the sky. But be patient because every star will has it's time too shine.
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#43. Everyone thinks it would be great to work for National Geographic. So did I.
Peter Menzel
#44. I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on ... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.
Steven Gerrard
#45. If you want to understand why you are here on earth, you must first examine who you are on the inside. There are no accidents. There are no mistakes. Everything you need to be great is already inside of you.
Detavio Samuels
#46. Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
Ian Botham
#47. We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown.
David Cameron
#48. To be great, practice simplicity and express humility.
Debasish Mridha
#49. You can never be great at anything unless you love it.
Maya Angelou
#50. I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.
Judd Apatow
#51. My fans expect me to be great and keep being great.
DJ Khaled
#52. They said 'if you have a 3D movie, we'll buy it' because they want it. For maybe two weeks I really thought of a silent, black and white 3D movie and I thought it could be great. I imagined it as a very special image, a very new image, but fortunately, I didn't have to do it.
Michel Hazanavicius
#53. It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.
Stone Gossard
#54. It would certainly would be great to see more films featuring the black family and showing that we are capable of having that unit strong and present and beautiful, because that's so much of who we really are.
Nia Long
#55. We don't need cultural change. USA was once great. To be great again, we must return to our cultural greatness.
Baltazar Bolado
#56. It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor.
Will Graham
#57. Whenever you feel a little stricken down in pain, think about this. The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something strong before it can become useful! You are going to be great after the struggles.
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.
Tavi Gevinson
#59. I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
Hannah Gadsby
#60. I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.
Marianne Faithfull
#61. An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#63. Like most heroes, with great destiny there must also be great sacrifice. You will be no different. There will be times when you will have to choose between your past life and your destiny.
Sheena Hutchinson
#64. More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.
William J. Clinton
#66. If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
#67. FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,
I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood
Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's,
Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!
Christopher Marlowe
#68. I always like to keep one hand in the tepee and the other hand in the synagogue. Wouldn't it be great if there was a combination of the two? You could go to synagogue, and it would be really hot in there.
Robbie Robertson
#69. If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
A.S. Byatt
#70. Having a partner who is your wife traveling with you can be great. We each have our roles in the work and then can help each other out on the emotional front when things get stressful, which they are.
Peter Menzel
#71. So you see, the most vital question then becomes, what type of woman will conquer our hero? If she be of poor quality, he'll become a slave. But if she be great, then her greatness will elevate the man to greater heights than he could ever have attained on his own.
Bryan M. Litfin
#72. I have my own goals in my head in terms of things that would be great to happen.
Luke Pritchard
#73. Every day is a chance to start over. Any day can be bad, surely, but any day can be good, can be great, and that promise, that potential, is a beautiful thing indeed.
R.A. Salvatore
#74. Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
Albert Camus
#75. The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.
Bela Karolyi
#76. It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.
Sarah Koenig
#77. No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.
John Chrysostom
#78. That may be great for a married couple, but I think it is a stupid idea for two people trying to get to know each other! If you are a young man trying to get to know a young girl, for heaven's sake, don't take her to a movie!
Richard G. Scott
#79. There was so much talk about the movie and we thought, "Wouldn't it be great to still do the movie, but to give everybody this thing they didn't see coming?" Even with the number of episodes, it was reported that there was going to be 10 episodes, and then there was talk about adding more.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#80. There are three goals for any comedian: to make a living as a comedian; I've been fortunate to do that. To make a name for yourself and to be famous would be great - because it would give me that freedom.
Alonzo Bodden
#81. I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen.
Dannii Minogue
#82. It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.
Viola Davis
#83. Artists have to have a good eye. And to be great, I'd recommend having two.
Jarod Kintz
#84. It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#85. We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others
Martin Luther King Jr.
#86. Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#87. There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way.
Steve Carell
#89. The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to do. You've got people pointing cameras at you and hundreds of people watching you, as you're trying to be great. And often, almost every time, you're not.
Chris Pratt
#90. Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
Katharine Hepburn
#91. There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to be great at anything.
Brian Griese
#92. If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.
John Maeda
#93. Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
Colin Powell
#94. I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.
Richard Hovey
#95. Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.
Andy Borowitz
#96. Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
Walter Ulbricht
#97. I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.
Alexa Chung
#98. There are three people you need to be great in life ; the path maker , the burden bearer and the dream maker .
Osunsakin Adewale
#99. Faced with terror, France must be strong, it must be great, and the state authorities must be firm.
Francois Hollande
#100. 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