Great Things Quotes - Page 28

• Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

  John Leguizamo

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the great things about writing a series is that with each book, the novel is meant to stand alone on its own legs, but also to bring along those loyal readers who become attached to the characters over the years.

  Linda Fairstein

  Book, Writing, Character

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• The great thing is, Internet allows you to create your own job, not just look for jobs other people are going to give you. And that, combined with the American spirit, I think, is going to help us come out of the recession faster than other countries. And I think it's going to help Africa come out of, you know, a century of slump.

  Esther Dyson

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

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• I could do great things, if I weren't so busy doing little things.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Littles, Little Things, Busy

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• Take heart! Many great things have been done by people in poor mental health.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Heart, People, Done

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• Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made.

  Saint Augustine

  Beautiful, May, Makers

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• And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

  Sun Tzu

  Intelligent, People, Use

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• I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Spring, Winning, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  People, United States, Ability

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• Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

  Euripides

  Life Is Short, Men, Hands

  Euripides, G. S. Kirk (1979). “Bacchae of Euripides”, p.58, CUP Archive

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• Through persistence and hard work, we can each unlock the potential God has given us. We have within us not only the capacity to accomplish great things but also the ability to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Hard Work, Persistence, Ordinary

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• When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

  Plato

  Grateful, Feels

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• I am gratified on a regular basis by the people I meet all across the country who dedicate their efforts to protecting the environment and public health and are making a difference. The great thing about working on important issues is all of the other people you meet doing the same thing.

  Laurie David

  Country, Differences, Issues

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's.

  Suzanne Somers

  Cancer, Childhood, Three

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't know if it's still taboo in our culture but counseling is a great thing because sometimes you need someone from the outside to sit down and go over whatever the questions or conflicts are and come to a resolution.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  Needs, Culture, Down And

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• I have to say, as a showrunner, being niche-y is kind of a great thing.

  Matt Nix

  Niche, Kind

  Source: deadline.com

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• I always believed that my platform would be speaking to young women that were teenagers that had had their babies and were trying to make it as single moms and still have hope and passions and pursuit of great things in their lives.

  Shari Wiedmann

  Mom, Baby, Teenager

  "Actress Shari Rigby talks about her “Beautifully Flawed” life". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. March 2015.

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• The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

  Peter Ustinov

  Adaptable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Alive, Realizing

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• Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

  L. Frank Baum

  Awe, Remove, Familiarity

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.2783, Delphi Classics

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• Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.

  Emily Post

  Children, Hands, Broken

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.571, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

  John Cleese

  Want, Unselfish, Wells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've learned in my career, it is much better to be recognized for all the great things you do on the field.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Careers, Fields, I've Learned

  "Braden's grandma to A-Rod: 'Stick it'" by Andrew Marchand, www.espn.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I've never believed anyone could put more pressure on me than I put on myself. People expect great things from me. I expect great things from myself.

  Steve McNair

  People, Pressure

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• Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Energy, Youngsters, Happens

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