Great Quotes

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires"

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move"

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"It'll be a great place if they ever finish it"

O. Henry, Writer

"Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"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"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe"

Anatole France, Novelist

"Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin"

Anatole France, Novelist

"I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God"

John Calvin, Theologian

"The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting"

Jessamyn West, Author

"Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril"

Lucretius, Poet

"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant"

Lucretius, Poet

"It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind"

Lucretius, Poet

"I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

"Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself"

Sallust, Historian

"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end"

Tacitus, Historian

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise"

Tacitus, Historian

"Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord"

Sallust, Historian

"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay"

Sallust, Historian

"But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor"

Christian Bale, Actor

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