Quotes about Great

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”

“I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.”

“At the end of the day, you can't compete with Mother Nature. If you've got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need.”

“Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.”

“For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.”

“In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”

“So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.'”

“The target for every great champion is to play for the team.”

“The idea behind fast food is great - people want convenience.”

“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”

“I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.”

“It's always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months.”

“The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.”

“I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.”

“My grandfather was a wealthy and respected merchant in Montclair, New Jersey, where I was born. But his estate was wiped out in the Great Depression, and as a result, I had what I consider the ideal upbringing: We were a proud family, good citizens, and we didn't have a sou.”

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”

“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”

“We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.”

“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.”

“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”