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Great Thing Quotes (page 11)

I was never like the rest of you, making plans about the great things I'd do, I never saw myself as anything much, just shy, stupid little Beth, who's only use was at home. Why does everyone want to go away? I love being home, but I don't like being left behind. Now I'm the one going ahead, No one can stop God if He wants me, But I'm afraid I shall be homesick for you... even in heaven. Louisa May Alcott
And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought. Ernest Hemingway
Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes. What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — If you cannot tolerate the planet that it is on? Grade the ground first. If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him ... he will... Henry David Thoreau
Michael Jordan quote: "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. Michael Jordan
This Church is true. It will weather every storm that beats against it. It will outlast every critic who rises to mock it. It was established by God our Eternal Father for the blessing of His sons and daughters of all generations. It carries the name of Him who stands as its head, even the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. It is governed and moves by the power of the priesthood. It sends forth to the world another witness of the divinity of the Lord. Be faithful, my friends. Be... Gordon B. Hinckley
At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in. Mother Teresa
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote: "The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but..."
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Anatole France quote: "To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act."
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. Anatole France
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the..."
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence Lucius Annaeus Seneca
David McCullough quote: "The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to..."
The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it. David McCullough
The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after. Ernest Hemingway
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness. Mother Teresa
But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else. Leo Tolstoy
Keith Richards quote: "One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an..."
One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience Keith Richards
That sport best pleases that doth least know how, where zeal strives to content, and the contents dies in the zeal of that which it presents. Their form confounded makes most form in mirth when great things laboring perish in their birth. William Shakespeare

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