Great Quotes

After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

~ Gayle Forman

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

~ Tony Hillerman

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

~ James Tobin

Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.

~ David Lee

I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.

~ Tamron Hall

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

~ Iain Duncan Smith

Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.

~ Robin S. Sharma

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

~ Gordon Ramsay

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

~ Che Guevara

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.

~ Jason Robert Brown

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

~ Nick Cave

One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

Running is a great metaphor for life. You set a goal, and then you get to work. How well you do is a direct reflection of how hard you work. It's a mental game, too. There are setbacks along the way, but the true test of a runner is how you overcome and push past them.

~ Ivanka Trump

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

~ Justin Rosenstein

It's a great feeling when your work is appreciated.

~ Jacqueline Fernandez

When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

~ Saskya Pandita

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

~ Tryon Edwards

Everyone has a different body shape, so you kind of have to figure out not only what works best for your body type, but what also makes you feel confident. Even if everyone thinks you look good in a bikini, and you don't feel good in it, you're not going to be at your best. If you feel great in a bikini, you can always work it.

~ Gigi Hadid

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

~ Fernando Flores

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

~ Calvin Coolidge

You can't stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn't work at Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of China didn't work. The Berlin Wall.

~ James Turrell

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

~ Herman Melville

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

~ Nadia Boulanger

The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.

~ Alex Ferguson

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, where their hard work and their students' achievement are applauded and rewarded.

~ Lionel Sosa

I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

~ John Ruskin

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

~ Walter Gropius

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

~ Oscar Wilde

Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.

~ Jenn Proske

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

~ Ray Charles

Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great Escape' and 'Grand Prix' in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.

~ Richard Corliss

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

~ George Matthew Adams

If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.

~ Michael Schumacher

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

~ Sam Altman

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

~ Alanis Morissette

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

~ Edmund Burke

It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.

~ Michael Keaton