Quotes on Great Things

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

. . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. . . . We will do great things yet. . . . So long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper.

It always gives me great pleasure to be surrounded by the beautiful children of our land. Whenever I am with the energetic young people ... I feel like a recharged battery, confident that our country can look forward to great things.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Great things are won by great dangers.

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.