Quotes on Great Ones

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

If we know anything about a path at all, it's only because of the Great ones that have gone before us. Out of their love and kindness, they have left some footprints for us to follow. So, in the same way that they wish for us, we wish that all beings everywhere, including ourselves, be safe, be happy, have good health, and enough to eat. And may we all live at ease of heart with whatever comes to us in life.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.

The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

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

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.