Quotes about Great

“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”

“You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.”

“I love being in a city with great weather.”

“Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.”

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.”

“I wish I was a great cricket player, but I am not.”

“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”

“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”

“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.”

“It's like a muscle - if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don't keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.”

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

“The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.”

“My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.”

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”

“Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.”

“I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.”

“Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.”

“If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”