Great Quotes

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

~ John Boehner

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

~ Don Rickles

The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

~ Orison Swett Marden

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

~ Herodotus

'The Slap' is not like anything else. It's an incredibly well-written novel that has been turned into a great and intriguing series that reveals both less and more about each character than you learn in the book. It's a novel that has been given a second chance to live.

~ Essie Davis

I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

~ Lou Holtz

For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.

~ Larry Fitzgerald

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

~ Alexander The Great

This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.

~ Steven Gerrard

Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.

~ Orlando Bloom

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

~ Deborah Bull

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

~ Joanna Lumley

For me, if God blessed me with that one great hit, I'm satisfied. But I've still got a lot in me, and I'd still like to get out there and tell a lot more stories cinematically. And God willing, I'll get the chance to do that.

~ Steven Seagal

You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

~ Matt Damon

It's a great experience. If you get a chance to run for president, do it.

~ Mitt Romney

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

~ Cate Blanchett

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

~ Orison Swett Marden

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

~ Dwayne Johnson

Great music will always rise to the top if you give it a chance.

~ Darius Rucker

I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.

~ Roger Ailes

I'm glad I had a chance to see great music played up close and live. In a way, that's what I hope my show does. It's almost like an acoustic evening with Mick Foley.

~ Mick Foley

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

~ William Hurt

Cheap labor is a small part of the problem at work here. If it were only cheap labor, America would be in trouble. Because it's other things, too, we have a great chance to turn it around. Here's the problem: Our high corporate tax rate pushes our companies offshore. Our high regulatory burden pushes our companies offshore.

~ Peter Navarro

I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

~ Gerard Butler

Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.

~ Charles Hazlewood

I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad.

~ Caroline Leavitt

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

~ Stephen Leacock

I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live there's a different energy about living in the city.

~ Odette Annable

For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

~ Eric Topol

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.

~ Webb Simpson

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

~ Bill Kreutzmann

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

~ Hilary Swank

I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.

~ Abbi Jacobson

Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.

~ Laurie Metcalf

All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are important. The lessons you think are great and thankful for never end up meaning anything to you.

~ Glenn Ficarra

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

~ Conrad Hilton

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

~ John Wooden