Great Person Quotes

• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

  563 Copy quote

  Show source

• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Partying for the Planet and Dancing With God (at Burning Man)" by Leah Lamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

  177 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Success, Courage

  81 Copy quote

• The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivation, Doe

  5 Copy quote

• Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Character, People

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

  Jeff Olson

  Fate, Exercise, Greatness

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.133, Greenleaf Book Group

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Dream

  33 Copy quote

• A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life And Love, Really Great, Feels

  105 Copy quote

• Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Strong, Character, Able

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1978). “The way to happiness: the eternal quest of mankind”, Prentice Hall

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

  William Carlos Williams

  Business, Stress, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.188, New Directions Publishing

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Achieve Greatness

  "Frondes Agrestes, Readings in 'Modern Painters' Chosen at Her Pleasures".

  2 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

  Priscilla Presley

  Humor, Caring, Parent

  4 Copy quote

• I'm proud of myself. I could break and go get all this plastic surgery and get my nose fixed and get lipo or do whatever, but I haven't chosen to do that because I know I'm a great person. I'm pretty damn hot, if you ask me.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Proud, Hot, Noses

  3 Copy quote

• I've been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that's not really there, but it wasn't hard with Halle because she's a great person and very beautiful, so it ain't a tough job at the end of the day.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Beautiful, Jobs, The End Of The Day

  0 Copy quote

• Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Essentials, Rewards, Relation

  185 Copy quote

• If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

  Jerry West

  Games, Personality, Ifs

  Source: alanpaul.net

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Should Have, Fifty

  2 Copy quote

• Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

  Akeem Ayers

  Teacher, Kings, Luther

  0 Copy quote

• I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say — Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Heart, Giving

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hannah in the show is enormous, like a Hilary Duff of TV. I hope everyone really likes her. She's a great person!

  Miley Cyrus

  Likes, Tvs, Enormous

  0 Copy quote

• We turned the lights off to save money, so you can't really see it. It's the same show. Hopefully, there are lots of laughs and lots of great personal stuff, but it is explicitly a darker season [4 of Sherlock Holmes].

  Mark Gatiss

  Light, Laughing, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

  Randall Wallace

  Heart, Persons, Converses

  0 Copy quote

• Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Order, Needs, Well Being

  3 Copy quote

• Kathy Burgess describes [Hillary] Clinton as fun and an all-around great person but admits it doesn't come through well.

  Tamara Keith

  Fun, Clinton, Wells

  Source: www.npr.org

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

  Victor Ponta

  Risk, Passionate, Communist

  2 Copy quote