Top 100 To Be Great Quotes
#1. Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#2. Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.
Philip James Bailey
#3. Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#4. Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.
Joe Garagiola
#5. Everyone wants to be great, until it's time to do what greatness requires.
Joshua Medcalf
#6. So many of us get caught up into the race game that we forget that in the end we are just people trying to do better for ourselves and our families. My father use to have a saying, that in order to be great you have to do great things that change the world of people around you.
D.E. Rogers
#7. You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
Les Brown
#8. To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the
past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I
was motivated to do better - to improve on the ideas of others.
Scott Douglas
#9. It's not enough to be good. You have to be great.
Jeff Goins
#10. People who plead with you for favours
May eventually prove to be great flatterers.
Your friends are only those
Who all the time cheerfully support
Your heart's aspiration-flames.
Sri Chinmoy
#11. Love God, love people. Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly. Treat people as you want to be treated. If you want to be great, be a servant.
Jen Hatmaker
#12. For your life to be great,your faith must be bigger than your fear.
Robin S. Sharma
#13. To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.
Julius Erving
#14. If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.
John Ashcroft
#15. Do 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 Augustine
#16. Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
Harry S. Truman
#17. Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then you're going to generate stuff. It's not going to be great, it's just going to be stuff.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#18. I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
Joseph Goebbels
#21. But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon.
Bridget Hall
#22. There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Tony Robbins
#23. I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things. It is not the earth, it is not America, who is so great, it is I who am great or to be great ...
Walt Whitman
#24. It's very hard to be great at what you do if you aren't deeply passionate,
Ivanka Trump
#25. Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
Fernando Flores
#27. To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.
Cornel West
#28. Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great!
Mark Twain
#29. To be great at whatever it is that you do, it's going to take some discipline to separate yourself from the average.
Andy Andrews
#30. The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.
Laozi
#31. It's going to be great. A lot of the players are coming. I wasn't here when they put (Jackson) up in the rafters. But to have him here as my number goes up, it brings back a lot of great memories.
Scottie Pippen
#32. Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation
Nelson Mandela
#33. ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.
Roy Orbison
#34. Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
Magic Johnson
#35. No one needs to give you permission to be great. You hold that authority.
Kevin Abdulrahman
#36. If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens
J. J. Watt
#37. There is no right way to go on an edible journey. You can never tell what is going to be great, so you have to try everything. If you become doctrinaire about sticking to lowbrow foods or epicurean delights, your just being an extremist, and it won't do you any good.
Adam Richman
#38. If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.
Ivan Lendl
#39. What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
Miles Franklin
#40. We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#41. To be simple is to be great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thom S. Rainer
#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. Why worship a flag or a God, when we can worship that which is best in us: our will to be great.
Andrew Ryan
#44. You can begin to be great to-day in your own home, in your store or office, on the street, everywhere; you can begin to make yourself known as great; and you can do this by doing everything you do in a great way
Wallace D. Wattles
#45. I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.
Jessie J.
#46. Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#47. It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Havelock Ellis
#48. Anyone who wants to be great and influential person should be ready to pay the highest price in order to develop their gifts and submit themselves to this gift
Sunday Adelaja
#49. For a man to be great, he must not dwell on small things, though he may enjoy them.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#50. I enjoy getting any kind of mail. Like, for me, like, the more interesting a letter is, I just get more excited, and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
Adrian Tomine
#51. The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
Ramakrishna
#53. Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.
Dan O'Brien
#54. We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
Dan Hawkins
#55. 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
#57. 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
#58. You want everyone to be great and funny. I'm not saying I'm great, but I'm funny.
Jon Lovitz
#59. 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
#60. If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.
Demi Lovato
#61. A man who endeavored to be better was already superior to the men who claimed to be great.
Penelope Douglas
#62. I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.
Kristy Swanson
#63. 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
#65. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant and whoever wants to be first must be servant of all
Timothy Keller
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Everyone has the potential to be great, because everyone has the potential to serve." Martin Luther King
Margaret A. Hofmann
#70. 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
#71. To be great, practice simplicity and express humility.
Debasish Mridha
#72. 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
#73. My fans expect me to be great and keep being great.
DJ Khaled
#74. We don't need cultural change. USA was once great. To be great again, we must return to our cultural greatness.
Baltazar Bolado
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.
John Maeda
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. There are three people you need to be great in life ; the path maker , the burden bearer and the dream maker .
Osunsakin Adewale
#82. My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great.
Adriane Lenox
#83. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
Louisa May Alcott
#84. I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great. I want to reach for greatness.
Chris Rock
#85. Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#86. Most of the designers are eco-friendly, even by default, through their use of up-cycled materials and organic fabrics, and by producing in small quantities. Ultimately, the design has to be great - no one will buy it if it looks like a hemp sack!
Amber Valletta
#87. Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.
John F. Kennedy
#88. Angels also often want to contribute more than money to a young company. Angels have the experience, and inclination, to be great mentors and valuable directors.
Basil Peters
#89. Some people are funny, and some people are not funny. Many people who are not funny can make a living at it. You don't have to be great to make a living at it. Just like a doctor who doesn't have to be great can still make a living out of it.
Woody Allen
#90. I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.
Donald Trump
#91. I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.
Tom T. Hall
#92. A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#94. To be great, be entire:
Of what is yours nothing
exaggerate or exclude
Be whole in each thing. Put all that you are
Into the least you do
Like that on each place the whole moon
Shines for she lives aloft.
Fernando Pessoa
#95. I'm living on this positive mind frame where I'm only attracting positive things. I'm controlling my energy, I'm eating right, I'm meditating, I'm in the gym, I'm doing all this stuff I'm supposed to be doing. I'm past that young, immature way of thinking. I just want to be great.
Shameik Moore
#96. At the moment, he kinda knew how the male praying mantis felt when he
was approaching Ms. Mantis, knowing the sex was going to be great but he was going to gethis head bitten off.
Ah, well. Some things were worth losing your head.
Linda Howard
#97. It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
Horace Bushnell
#98. You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
Alex Kapranos
#99. I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.
Julius Erving
#100. If your aims are lofty, your achievements are bound to be great.
Radhe Maa
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