Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
A great man is always willing to be little.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
When people push back on you and don't think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they're right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.
I dress according to my mood. Some days I don't want to dress up, while some days I want to look great and so I make an extra effort to put on some Kajal and beautiful dresses, but it all depends on my mood.
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.
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.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.
It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.
Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have done to ensure our freedom.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.
Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.
Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.
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.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
No man was ever great by imitation.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.
I'm not a hunter, but I've been around guns all my life. I'm a great shot.
I'm done losing weight, I feel great, and I love looking like a woman. I love being curvy and having boobs and hips. It's hot. I don't ever want to be size zero.
To become a great player, you've got to show real dedication and commitment to football, and you've got to be very humble and hard-working. And, above all, you've got to fight to make your dreams come true.
I love Australia; it was a really, really nice experience for me. It's such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful - like, really beautiful - and they are beautiful in terms of their personalities. It's a great place to be. It's like you are in a little bit of a dream world.
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.