Quotes about Great

“My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.”

“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”

“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.”

“Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.”

“One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”

“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”

“All great achievements require time.”

“Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.”

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”

“The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.”

“The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.”

“Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.”

“If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.”

“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.”

“The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.”

“Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.”

“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”

“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”

“The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.”