Great Things Quotes - Page 9

• It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Humble, Humility, Lows

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• You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

  George S. Patton

  Discipline, Undisciplined, Small Things

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• Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Dream, Positive Energy

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• Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the word of God, which could lead them, through faith, to an understanding, rather than to have them stray away into strange paths of man-made theories and be plunged into the murky waters of disbelief and apostasy?

  Harold B. Lee

  Men, Iron, Water

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• It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

  Matthew Arnold

  Thinking, Important, Able

  "Democracy" (1861)

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• When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, Rights, Blue

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1926). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

  Sara McMann

  Doors, Order, Things In Life

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• You have to believe that you deserve great things. You have to believe that you deserve to win each fight that you're in. You have to believe that you deserve to become a champion.

  Michael Chandler

  Believe, Fighting, Winning

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• It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Believe, Mma, Body

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• The great thing about acting is the longer you do it, the more you realize that all those realities are inside you. No matter how crazy they are, you can pretend that they are a part of you. The great thing about this job is you get to play with every aspect of your id and who you are.

  Matthew Lillard

  Jobs, Crazy, Reality

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I feel like social media is a great thing. I try not to go on it too much.

  Kaitlyn Dever

  Media, Trying, Goes On

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't look for people who have achieved great things; I look for people who will achieve great things.

  Urijah Faber

  People, Looks, Achieve

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• I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

  Randy Schekman

  Humanity, World, Scientist

  "How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science" by Randy Schekman, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2013.

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• To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.

  Ernest Renan

  Religious, Sacrifice, Men

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• Depending on the day or even the hour, productivity can take very low dips. At times, I may feel like throwing in the towel. I love being inspired by amazing women who have achieved great things. When I have a setback, I will spend 15 minutes reading quotes from strong women or reading or watching an interview with a woman I admire (a gold medalist or a CEO). This gets me back in the right mindset to tackle any challenge.

  Samantha Ettus

  Strong Women, Reading, Love Is

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• Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.

  Galileo Galilei

  Stars, Eye, Numbers

  "Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo". Book by Galileo Galilei, 1957.

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• That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.

  Chris Paul

  Cities, Judging, Style

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.

  Giovanna Cau

  Growing Up, Father, Wife

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

  Roseanne Barr

  Years, Parent, Taught

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or not. It's going to be as much artifice when it comes out as a piece of music. Everything is in character in a way. But that's a great thing.

  Jenny Hval

  Writing, Character, Pieces

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.

  Alexander Koch

  Dating, Faults, Spirit

  "Meet Under the Dome's 'Romantic to a Fault' Heartthrob, Alexander Koch" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. September 16, 2013.

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• The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

  Ed Miliband

  Views, People, Have Faith

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• You and your oven are capable of great things,Remember, no two ovens are the same.

  Elton John

  Two, Remember, Ovens

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• That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head.

  Lauren Conrad

  Writing

  "Lauren Conrad – Sweet Little Lies Interview". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. February 2, 2010.

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• I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

  Abi Morgan

  Thinking, Ideas, Theatre

  Source: collider.com

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