Best Great Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.”

“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.”

“There would be no great men if there were no little ones.”

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”

“Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.”

“The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.”

“To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.”

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

“We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.”

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

“Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.”

“Small aim is a crime; have great aim.”

“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.”

“Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.”

“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.”

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”

“Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.”

“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.”

“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

“California is a great place to live if you're an orange.”

“Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.”

“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.”

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

“You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing 'Batman' was like holding a Ming vase or something. And I said, 'No, it's like holding a big-ass diamond that you can't break. You can throw him against the ceiling, against the floor, anywhere, and you just can't break Batman.'”

“I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.”

“Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.”

“Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.”

“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”

“Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run plays, but that doesn't offset the interception or the fumble.”

“Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.”

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

“Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.”

“I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.”

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

“Life should be great rather than long.”

“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.”

“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”

“I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.”

“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.”

“The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.”

“My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.”

“There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.”

“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”

“And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.”

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

“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.”

“I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.”

“Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.”

“A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.”

“My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.”

“It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and, indeed, the whole of our territory west of the Rocky Mountains, should speedily be filled up by a hardy and patriotic population.”

“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

“Great things are won by great dangers.”

“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”

“February is for curmudgeons, whinge-bags, and misanthropes. You can't begrudge us one month of the year or blame us for being even crabbier, it's so short. There is nothing good about it, which is why it's so great.”

“If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.”

“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”

“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.”

“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.”

“What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.”

“A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.”

“The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.”

“Life in abundance comes only through great love.”

“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.”

“Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.”

“I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.”

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”

“I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.”

“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.”

“Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.”

“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.”

“I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.”

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”

“Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“Just because Pluto or comets aren't as big as Jupiter doesn't mean they are not scientifically important - indeed, just the reverse is often true. Sometimes, great things come in small packages.”

“Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, then Arethusa will redden a new river.”

“I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.”

“There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.”

“Fashion is a great thing, it's a way to express who you are.”

“I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.”

“I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.”

“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

“No person and no character is beyond redemption, ultimately. That's the great thing about playing a character that has kind of a dark side; there's room to explore the opposite.”

“Owning a great golf course gives you great power.”

“The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.”

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. 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.”

“I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.”

“People say, 'Dream big!' - but you have to think about the logistics. It's not just coming up with a great idea; it's how you can sell or market or promote that great idea.”

“No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.”

“Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.”

“Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.”

“I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.”

“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”