Top 100 Quotes About Doing Great Things
#1. Doing great things for others is an awesome gift to give yourself.
Robin Sharma
#2. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?
F Scott Fitzgerald
#3. Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
Mencius
#5. Why can't there be a lot of great women who are doing great things?
Kristen Wiig
#6. Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.
Mencius
#7. Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They're doing great things for European MMA, and they're giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They're vital. I'm forever grateful for the opportunities I got.
Conor McGregor
#8. UPS stands as an example of a company that's already doing great things.
Steven Horsford
#9. There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's.
Suzanne Somers
#10. Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.
Mencius
#11. The reason people come to work for GE, they want to be apart of something bigger than themselves, they want to work for a company that makes a difference, a company that is doing great things in the world.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#12. People do not become great by doing great things. They do great things because they are great.
George Bernard Shaw
#13. Greatness is achieved, not only
by doing great things, but also,
by making the small things we do
great.
S. Tarr
#14. The indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe we are doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves. To
Carlos Castaneda
#16. There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.
Sam Altman
#17. happiness comes from doing great things-rather than getting great things
Charles Fay
#18. People like you end up doing great things because of the chances you're willing to take.
Celine Garcia
#19. Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#20. Girls get Screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for
Ellen Hopkins
#21. Be not weary in well-doing. ... Out of small things proceedeth that which is great. Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind.
Thomas S. Monson
#22. Forgiveness of sins is great, but I'd rather have the ability to quit doing the things I keep needing forgiveness for.
D.R. Silva
#23. I have a diverse audience, which is great, because I like doing things that are a bit more obscure, and I love doing things that are very popular as well. Each has its own bit of joy. So I try to mix it up.
Kate Beaton
#24. An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.
Christian Slater
#25. I've always wanted to do things differently, and if one person or ten people are doing the same, then I want to do it differently. I love to travel, I love art, I love fashion. I love going to great restaurants and trying different things. Different cultures are inspiring to me.
Molly Sims
#26. One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.
David Duchovny
#27. I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.
Uday Kotak
#28. 'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.
Dario Argento
#29. The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.
Martha Stewart
#30. There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.
Kathleen Hanna
#31. Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?
Charles M. Schwab
#32. Besides film, I'd like to be the young Regis. That would be great. Going back and forth from L.A. to New York. Doing stuff on food. Doing stuff on kids. Just talking about issues that are relevant. Doing things on the Olympic Games.
Apolo Ohno
#33. Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.
Paul Bettany
#34. I've appeared in those kind of films and have great fun doing it, and I'm always up for a challenge. I think with things like Mission: Impossible and Star Trek, those things are such an ensemble, it's not like I'm Ethan Hunt. I'm Benji. I'm the guy that does the computer business. I know my place.
Simon Pegg
#35. There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.
Luke Nosek
#36. I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.
Gerry Harvey
#37. That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.
Mike Krzyzewski
#38. It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
#39. I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.
Barry Manilow
#41. Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, and do things we like doing if we want to excel in whatever it is we're focusing on.
Torron-Lee Dewar
#42. Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
George Bernard Shaw
#43. Playing with guns you revert to a little boy sometimes. But they're not great things to play with, so it's just making them look real. When it comes to shooting guns or using any prop, you've got to make it look like you know what you're doing with them. It's called acting.
Ray Winstone
#44. Magnus tells me I was a hero. And I see on your face when you're looking at me that you're searching for that guy. The guy you knew who was a hero, who did great things. I don't remember doing those things. I don't know if that makes me not a hero anymore. But I'd like to try to be that guy again.
Cassandra Clare
#45. We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.
Gail Collins
#46. It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.
Niall Ferguson
#47. when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#48. Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.
Dhani Jones
#49. I, uh ... I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and ... and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.'
Julia Roberts
#50. Oh my son, so poor in doing the right things, so rich in doing the wrong things! What great poverty it is to be so rich!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. Well, I'm rather attracted to rather prosaic things like vacuum cleaners and hand dryers. Where people haven't apparently made them with a great love for what they're doing.
James Dyson
#52. Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff.
Jamie Bell
#53. Doing five-minute sets on 'Conan' and things like that are fun and a great way to introduce yourself, but it's such a constricting time, and you usually have to cut bits down.
Ron Funches
#54. People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.
Christopher Cross
#55. I think LPGA players for a long time were afraid to say what's on their minds. But we're doing all the right things and there's nothing wrong with having some great personalities and rivalries and some friction. I think that's really good for the sport.
Cristie Kerr
#56. Live every single day doing something relevant; single days sum up to make great ages!
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. be much more friendly to such things that matter most .Things that will propel your vision and ambition to higher heights. Things that will help you enlarge your tentacles. Do not look down on small things however
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#58. In order to do great things, you have to take on challenges in your life. Im doing nothing but taking on different challenges.
Tracy McGrady
#59. Like a busy government which only passes expensive laws prohibiting some new and interesting thing when people have actually found a way of doing it, the universe relied a great deal on things not being tried at all.
Terry Pratchett
#60. I am defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things.
Ashwin Sanghi
#61. But these great minds cannot avoid doing extraordinary things!
Samuel Richardson
#62. Greg: Scott, great horde.
My realization was that I could never *actually* live a life where I had to be constantly doing things like praising a dude's horde.
So that made me feel better about myself.
Jesse Andrews
#63. As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can be doing different things each season is great.
Mark Consuelos
#64. I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
Indra Nooyi
#65. Whatever your financial status in life, or whatever work you do, know that you can make a significant contribution to your family and world by doing small things with great love.
Joyce Vissell
#66. To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.
Mother Teresa
#67. I think one of the things I always loved about the comics was this idea that this character, when he goes berserk, that white, blind rage makes him incredibly powerful, but it's also a great flaw. It's almost like he loses consciousness of what he's doing. During that he can do great damage.
Hugh Jackman
#68. You hope you can fix it with the personnel that you have. On offense, we are doing some great things, but we did not execute. This group of men that I represent likes to work hard.
Les Miles
#69. The garden is doing so well, we have so many greens and radishes that everyone is enjoying. Also, we are using one square as a compost bin, the Green Team is collecting food waste at lunch. Things are looking great, a huge thank you again.
Mike Moreno
#70. Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
Orison S. Marden
#71. It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?
Vincent Massey
#72. So things go on as before with those who think a great deal and effect nothing, and those who think nothing evidently doing it all...
Saul Bellow
#73. I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful
Albert Einstein
#74. My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.
Howard G. Hendricks
#75. When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done ... is doing ... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it ... stay amazed!
Joyce Meyer
#76. It's great to see a relatable, accessible young woman out there, doing things and breaking the barriers for what would be considered an action movie.
Todd Lieberman
#77. I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.
Dave Grohl
#78. Doing good makes you great. Bad things take away from good ones. Practicing Netiquette is all good.
David Chiles
#79. It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa
Mother Teresa
#80. A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
Gene Wilder
#81. But these great minds cannot avois doing extraordinary things!
Samuel Richardson
#82. I'm not like my siblings, who are musical but can turn their hands to other professions! I'd always wanted to be involved in music - I'm a great believer in doing things that fulfil you.
Laura Mvula
#83. I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.
Sandra Lerner
#84. When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.
Annet Mahendru
#85. Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue
Chang - Lost Horizon (1933)
James Hilton
#86. When you work hard and you treat people great, regardless of what it is that you're doing, naturally people want to help and do things.
Kevin Hart
#87. My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
Alan Cumming
#88. I spend as much time as I possibly can doing things for other people, if I can. If I see a need and I feel that I can help, I do it. I work a great deal in terms of charities and things.
Jane Seymour
#89. I'm not saying, "Hey, isn't my life great, isn't yours rubbish?" Just that I try to spend my days doing as many of the things that I enjoy and hardly any time doing the things I don't.' 'Such as working,' I said. 'Yes,' he said. 'Such as that.
Paula Daly
#90. There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.
Ben Elton
#91. Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
Ornette Coleman
#92. They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.
Tove Jansson
#93. It's great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you're not bored. I'm not bored at all. I'm even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
Karl Lagerfeld
#94. To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
Nancy Travis
#95. The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.
Alexander Wang
#96. One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again ... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time ... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
Bebe Neuwirth
#97. Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
Ikue Mori
#98. I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.
Eric McCormack
#99. It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in.
Gail Ann Dorsey
#100. I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I'm constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.
Clinton Sparks
