Great Thing Quotes

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller

Great, Fail, Knew

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Great, Moving, Stand

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Victor Hugo

Great, Liberty, Century

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
Ray Bradbury

Life, Education, Great

No great thing is created suddenly.
Epictetus

Great, Suddenly, Created

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle

Great, God, Daily

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle

Great, Lose, Getting

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
Harvey Fierstein

Great, Mean, Chance

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
Donald Trump

Money, Great, Successful

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.
Fred Durst

Great, Yourself, Bad

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin

Great, Person, Done

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
John Ruskin

Time, Great, Resolutely

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
P. J. O'Rourke

Great, War, Alive

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Thomas Huxley

Peace, Happiness, Great

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Bono

Great, Respect, Different

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.
Jeff Foxworthy

Great, Hear, Phone

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
Danica Patrick

Great, Together, Goal

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
Christopher Hitchens

Great, Put, United

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.
Tim Tebow

Life, Faith, Great

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
David Foster Wallace

Great, Irony, Above

People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.
Robert Plant

Great, God, Rock

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
John Donne

Nature, Great, Elephant

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'
Louis C. K.

Life, Great, Woman

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
Elton John

Great, Rock, Someone

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.
Billy Connolly

Great, Same, Nuclear

I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.
Keanu Reeves

Great, Law, Able

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.
Louis C. K.

Great, Else, Somebody

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.
Danny Boyle

Great, Ego, Problem

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Great, Stand, Almost

The great thing about Dallas is there's no paparazzi.
Jessica Simpson

Great, Dallas, Paparazzi

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