Top 100 Something Great Quotes
#1. So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst kind. If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us.
Natalie Goldberg
#3. Whenever something great happens, you're always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.
Sarah Dessen
#4. I'm half Asian, so people immediately go, "Oh, you do kung fu," like that's what we do. We wake up, we do kung fu, we brush our teeth. It's just assumed that you're not working your ass off to make this believable and make this something great, and we absolutely are.
Maggie Q
#5. I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next.
Dermot Mulroney
#6. Though justice be the solid foundation on which a society may be built, it is the transcendent virtue of mercy that lifts that society above the base stones of its foundation and makes it something great.
Rayne Hall
#7. All you need is twenty seconds of insane courage and I promise you something great will come of it.
Matt Damon
#8. You made something great. And something new will come around. Or not. Either way, do the work you love. And love yourself. That's all you can do in this world in order to be happy.
Felicia Day
#9. I knew I was going to do something great. I knew I wasn't going to die 20 miles from where I was born, no 20 miles from where I lived.
Adrian Robinson
#10. Without good personal brands, whatever you do may not be accepted and patronized; without any brand at all, you may do something great which will not be known.
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. Something I've learned is that it actually takes a lot of work to make something great.
Lia Ices
#12. It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
#13. The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things
they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.
Slavoj Zizek
#14. I just love that. Give people something good to live up to - something great - and they usually will. In fact, often they'll even exceed those expectations.
Bob Burg
#15. I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.
Steven Spielberg
#16. I'm very much into collaboration. I think that collaboration is the road to making something great. I respect artists that are more autocrats and are in control of their own projects, but it's not really my style. I've always had that partnership.
Tamaryn
#17. America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.
Tadashi Yanai
#18. They'll say you're too little, Werner, that you're from nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you. I think you'll do something great.
Anthony Doerr
#19. We don't really need great amounts of anything. We just need a little of something great.
Aisha Mirza
#20. Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.
James Altucher
#21. Because people who aren't good at their jobs don't want to be measured, because then they have to be accountable for something. Great employees love that kind of accountability. They crave it. Poor ones run away from it.
Patrick Lencioni
#22. Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
Fuxi
#23. If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit.
Sanford I. Weill
#24. Faith-not a faith in one's self or in one's own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time. Without this faith it is not possible for any one to rise to real greatness.
Wallace D. Wattles
#25. Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.
Demetri Martin
#26. I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller
#27. In order to achieve something great, you'll have to sacrifice something great.
David Harley
#28. When I know that I have inspired someone to do something great, I know that I have done my job
Andrea L'Artiste
#29. An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it's going to launch you into something great. So focus, and keep aiming.
Anonymous
#30. If you can believe in something great, then you can achieve something great.
Katy Perry
#31. I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.
Dolly Parton
#32. If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.
Derek Sivers
#33. Sometimes people - especially people over 40 - underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they're not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over 40, "I don't want your best. I want better than that. I want better than what you perceive your best is."
Jack LaLanne
#34. Werner, that you're from, nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you. Think you'll do something great.
Anthony Doerr
#35. I do feel that whatever happens, it's important to work with great people and do something great. That's how I feel.
Brandon T. Jackson
#36. Making the process better, easier, and cheaper is an important aspiration, something we continually work on - but it is not the goal. Making something great is the goal.
Ed Catmull
#37. There is something great in whatever you look at. Many people look but few people see;to leave a distinctive footprint, do not just look but see for seeing will make you different
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#38. I think thus of Satan's pride: it is difficult for us on earth to comprehend it, and therefore, how easy it is to fall into error and partake of it, thinking, moreover, that we are doing something great and beautiful.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#39. You least obtain something great from the great thing you regard as least though such great thing can give you something great
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#40. Peope, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders, doing as you're told.
Ilona Andrews
#41. I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride ... I do something great and then I do something really dumb and then I laugh. You'll always be that kid.
Matthew Ashford
#42. I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
Halsey
#43. And if something great fails you, does that mean you yourselves are - failures? And if you yourselves are failures, does that mean - the human being is a failure? But if the human being is a failure: well then! come now!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.
Kinky Friedman
#45. I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that theyre complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better to know that they can rise above that and make something great.
Elizabeth Peyton
#46. Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.
Katy Perry
#47. We're on a planet. At the same time. In the Universe ... Let's do something Great Together!
Jeff Byington
#48. If you stay true to what you believe in, and if you're creating something great and authentic, your fans will stick with you no matter how much other things change!
Shawn Stockman
#49. Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Kara Goucher
#50. One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.
Paul Gauguin
#51. The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot for it.
Danny Meyer
#52. There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.
Alec Sulkin
#53. A great show means we have to connect; we have to prove to [the audience] that we do something great or blow their socks off, but it has to be with them if it's going to be sustained for any length of time.
Scott Avett
#54. The failure of something great is never a simple matter, but where there is success and glory, there must also be failure and shame.
Joe Abercrombie
#55. Don't be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!
Stormie O'martian
#56. Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.
Stephen Vizinczey
#57. It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.
Joel Osteen
#58. Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work
Michael Bloomberg
#59. Abby had a little experience with the rap genre already - she used to spit rhymes with this little blond neighbor kid when she would visit her aunt and uncle in Detroit. Marshall something. Great kid. A little tightly wound.
Andrew Shaffer
#60. Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.
Mark Lawrence
#61. There is a wonderful power that comes when you know that someone will achieve something great due to your help.
John Patrick Hickey
#62. But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.
Lou Reed
#63. Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.
Felicity Huffman
#64. For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy; finally it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.
Therese De Lisieux
#65. It doesn't matter if you want to be in the NFL or do something else. If you want something great, you won't get it sitting around.
Eric Dickerson
#66. I tried so hard to find life within myself, to live for something great - something that would make life worth living
B.P. Morgan
#67. I would rather believe for something great and receive half of it, than to believe for nothing and receive all of it!
Joel Osteen
#68. 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
#69. I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.
Ashton Kutcher
#70. Imposter syndrome" wasn't coined as a term until the 1970s, but it's safe to assume women have always felt it: that nagging feeling that, even after you've just done something great, maybe you actually don't deserve the
praise.
Jessica Bennett
#71. Something great is going to happen today, I can't wait to see what it Is!
Brook Noel
#72. Everyday is another chance to do something great.
Emma Paul
#73. I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely.
Lauryn Hill
#74. If there is something great in you, it will not appear on your first call. It will not appear and come to you easily, without any work and effort. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Leo Tolstoy
#75. Crosby is a great player, but I'd have to say Ovechkin, who is also a great player but doesn't have the same kind of support, and who does something great on almost every shift.
Jaromir Jagr
#76. If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part of something great.
Kevin Connolly
#77. When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.
Lauren Willig
#78. I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
Maya Angelou
#79. Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.
Robert K. Greenleaf
#80. I really believe there is the possibility of something great that can happen in the right hands.
Alfonso Cuaron
#81. Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.
Twyla Tharp
#82. You're destined for something great, Ada, I know this. And it's an honor to help see you through it.
Karina Halle
#83. There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.
Natasha Lyonne
#84. To overcome something great you must first learn to overcome your own fears.
Nikki Rowe
#85. I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.
Leo Tolstoy
#86. I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.
Bruce McCulloch
#87. If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.
Andrew Williams
#88. Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion.
John Piper
#89. Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great.
Kemp Muhl
#91. Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.
Alison Brie
#92. I am Not The Best, But I Have The Potential To Be Something Great.
Anderson Silva
#93. If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.
Marlon Wayans
#94. Don't dream to be something but rather dream to do something great.
Narendra Modi
#95. Some of my kin look just like trees now, and need something great to rouse them; and they speak only in whispers. But some of my trees are limb-lithe, and many can talk to me.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#96. I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand
Leo Tolstoy
#97. If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.
Fred Wilson
#98. Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
Alfred North Whitehead
#99. As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.
Jonny Greenwood
#100. I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.
Howard Shore
