Quotes about Great
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Success is a great deodorant.
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen.
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
You never know what a person is going through, regardless of how much money they make or however great a life you think they're living.
Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.'
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
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