If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

No great thing happens suddenly.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

The great thing about an independent film is that you’re too busy working, and you’re too busy hoping to God to get it done.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

One of the great things about the universe is that it’s fair.

I don’t get any parts I don’t get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don’t get offered.

When I get home after being away for work, my wife always stuffs the fridge with loads of what she calls ‘nibbles’ – all the great things you can eat straight from the fridge, like chunks of cheese, slices of ham, bowls of hummus.

True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop. That’s who you are!

That’s free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing – the truly democratic thing about it – is that you don’t even have to be a player to lose.

I’ve learned in my career, it is much better to be recognized for all the great things you do on the field.

When I hear a great new record, especially when it’s by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, Why didn’t I think of that? Why didn’t I write that record? It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be inclined to think freedom less necessary in the great things than in the little ones, if it were possible to be secure of the one without the other.

If you don’t conquer your fear, you are going to miss out on some great things in life.

The great thing about unrequited love is it’s the only kind that lasts.

The best things in life aren’t things.

We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can’t do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort. I could, however, make myself insane, if I wished. (Though if I achieved the second, I might be able to make myself think I’d achieved the first….) Anyway, if there’s a lesson to be learned, it’s this: great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable. Or, in easier terms, distinguishing between Popsicles and insanity. Any questions?

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.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

The sound of madness is life. It’s waking up in the morning to your alarm clock, your kid crying for you, hearing the sound of the city, it’s everything. Madness isn’t necessarily a negative thing, it can be a positive thing. You know, hearing them cry for you, if you have children, is a great thing, it’s your child.

I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind–and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.