130 Great People Quotes

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Famous Great People Quotes

Working with great people is one of the best parts of life. — Sam Altman

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. — Miguel de Cervantes

There are amazing people in this world that just need an opportunity. — Leigh Anne Tuohy

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive. — Josh Lucas

Love the people with whom fate brings you together — Marcus Aurelius

Great countries are those that produce great people. — Benjamin Disraeli

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person. — Tim Duncan

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people. — William Shakespeare

When you realize who the good people are in your life, you're so lucky. — Sophia Bush

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity. — Martha Stewart

Surround yourself with the best people possible. — Naval Ravikant

People with good hearts are the ultimate winners. - Seohyun

People with good hearts are the ultimate winners. — Seohyun

The Power of WHO provides great lessons about how to succeed in business and in life. If you surround yourself with quality people and great friends, the sky's the limit. — Wayne Gretzky

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great. — Rick Warren

Short Great People Quotes

  • What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people! — Teresa of Avila
  • I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives. — Andrew Shue
  • Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together. — John Ratzenberger
  • Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else. — Dean Smith
  • One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are. — Edith Wharton
  • I think good things come to good people. — Derrick Rose
  • Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. — Joe Rogan
  • A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. — Walt Whitman
  • Great men have great dogs. — Otto von Bismarck
  • It pays to get drunk with the best people. — Joe E. Lewis

Top 10 Great People Quotes

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. — Mark Twain

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. — Rosalynn Carter

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves. — Marcus Garvey

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. — William James

Each game is an opportunity to be on a great stage and be a witness for Christ. When I step on the floor, people should know who I represent, who I believe in. — Stephen Curry

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. — Huey Newton

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. — Ernest Hemingway

Great People Image Quotes

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

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

People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man. - John F. Kennedy Jr. quote

People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man. — John F. Kennedy Jr.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot quote

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. — Walter Bagehot

Take a look people, take a good look at greatness! - Randy Orton quote

Take a look people, take a good look at greatness! — Randy Orton

When your silent, people recognize your greatness. - Jordan Burroughs quote

When your silent, people recognize your greatness. — Jordan Burroughs

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. - Victor Papanek quote

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. — Victor Papanek

The people who give you their food give you their heart. - Cesar Chavez quote

The people who give you their food give you their heart. — Cesar Chavez

People who love to eat are always the best people. - Julia Child quote

People who love to eat are always the best people. — Julia Child

Great vision without great people is irrelevant. - James C. Collins quote

Great vision without great people is irrelevant. — James C. Collins

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work - Steve Jobs quote

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work — Steve Jobs

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand - Vince Lombardi quote

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand — Vince Lombardi

Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C. - W. C. Fields quote

Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C. — W. C. Fields

Great people quote Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.

Amazing People Quotes

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. — Sam Walton

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results. — George S. Patton

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. — Thomas Sowell

Great people quote Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. — Rodney Dangerfield

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. — David Bowie

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen

Great people quote No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.

The world doesn't really need more people who can bend their bodies into amazing positions. What it needs are kinder, more compassionate, generous people. — Donna Farhi

I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time, which will amaze and overwhelm people ... I must achieve this so that photography can begin to be considered a form of art. — Alexander Rodchenko

No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people! — William Wilberforce

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. — Charles Franklin Kettering

Great Person Quotes

... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls. — Lev S. Vygotsky

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. — Rita Rudner

Great people quote Great people do things before they're ready.
Great people do things before they're ready.

I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person. — Iker Casillas

True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition. — Frederick Herzberg

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein

Great people quote The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they wan
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise. — J. R. D. Tata

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. — Hafez

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. — Septima Poinsette Clark

Quiet people have the loudest minds. - Stephen Hawking

Quiet people have the loudest minds. — Stephen Hawking

Cool People Quotes

The internet is super smart. If you do something that is cool, that's actually worth people's time, then they'll adopt it. If you do something that's not cool and sucks, you can spend as many marketing dollars as you want, [they] just won't — Gabe Newell

I'm driven to get to goals as fast as possible. It frustrates people in my lab who have something they think is cool, but if it doesn't move us forward, I don't want to do it. — David Sinclair

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill

If you think you can't, you're right. - Carol Bartz

If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. — Calvin Coolidge

I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun. — Corbin Bleu

Great people quote How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.
How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.

People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do. — Tony Dungy

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment. — Ben Stiller

My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic is cool and it just adds to my mystique. I mean, Cancellara says some wacky stuff in English and nobody makes fun of him. — Peter Sagan

This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying “Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.” — Jeremy Clarkson

Great History Quotes

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. — Chinua Achebe

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood. — Joseph Stalin

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. — Mae Jemison

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. - Harriet Tubman

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. — Harriet Tubman

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less. — Marie Curie

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — George S. Patton

Great people quote Great people do things before they are ready.
Great people do things before they are ready.

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond. — Haile Selassie

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. — Moliere

The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history. — Winston Churchill

Beautiful People Quotes

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. — Carl Rogers

Great people quote Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, by the really
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, by the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." — Layne Beachley

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway

I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me. — Wesley Snipes

Great people quote A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't want to go
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't want to go but ought to be.

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me. — Zaha Hadid

Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football. — Pele

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. — Ed Cunningham

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

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quotes on investment, innovation and networking

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Read quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

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Read quotes by Leigh Anne Tuohy

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Read quotes by Josh Lucas

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quotes on love, life and bear

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Read quotes by Marcus Aurelius

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quotes on life, love and discipline

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More Great People Quotes

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness. — Anne Frank

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me. — Ice Cube

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten. — Idi Amin

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it. — Ann Landers

Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas. — Benjamin Franklin

Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly. — Oswald Mosley

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind. — Grace Lee Boggs

If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! — Andrew Murray

Thank you everyone for your kind words, support and prayers!! I'm hurting right now but it's great to know good people have my back!! — Roman Reigns

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. — Margot Fonteyn

I am proud of my country. But we need to unite to make a unified India, free of communalism and casteism. We need to build India into a land of equal opportunity for all. We can be a truly great nation if we set our sights high and deliver to the people the fruits of continued growth, prosperity and equal opportunity. — Ratan Tata

The percentage of mentally disturbed people in the United States is very high. From the time the American gets up in the morning, he feels as if someone is trying to influence his will in some way: he is a person with a thousand pressures. The Americans live under a great strain ... and have great feelings of frustration. — Fidel Castro

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. — Abdul Kalam

We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination. — Hassan al-Banna

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. — Whitney M. Young

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