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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. -- Fay Weldon
Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself. -- Jann Wenner
Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting. -- Alla Nazimova
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries. -- Alan Alda
One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback. -- Michael McMillian
I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class. -- Angie Harmon
I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do. -- Ricky Jay
While Safeco's turnaround is one of the greatest things I have ever participated in, the heart-wrenching decisions to let people go will stay with me forever. -- Mike McGavick
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. -- Samuel Smiles
Working with Kanye is one of the greatest things ever. It's also one of the most nerve-wracking things ever. He's, like, the most critical, particular, artistic person ever. -- Big Sean
I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres. -- Stuart Townsend
One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly. -- Nathan Myhrvold
One of the greatest things about my job is that I can enjoy all the successes of a show, but can still go out in public, not like say, Michael Jordan. -- Rob Paulsen
One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families. -- Victoria Osteen
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer. -- Ben Kingsley
Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen. -- Pete Carroll
It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, that's one of the greatest things I've got going on, being a father. -- T.I.
Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself. -- Steve Wozniak
We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. -- Brit Hume
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met. -- Philip Yancey
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life. -- Catherine Opie
I like the relationship between the master and the student. Each piece has new problems, and each is different. They're all an indentured servitude. There's that subjugation that you have to put yourself under. It's a give and take. There is work involved, and during that time, the greatest things are revealed. -- Mike Bidlo
I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world. -- Michael Phelps
I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done. -- John Krasinski
My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world. -- David Rudisha
One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented ones I've ever had. It really helps me as far as character development because they paint a very descriptive picture of who the characters are while still letting us have freedom to put in our own ideas. -- Richard Harmon
The greatest things in life are not things. -- Rick Warren
Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing. -- Ellen DeGeneres
The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things. -- Louis Pasteur
Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things. -- Thales
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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. -- Eric Hoffer
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty. -- Ben Hecht
Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers. -- Cameron Mathison
The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little. -- William Jennings Bryan
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. -- Francis Bacon
The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose. -- Jack Canfield
The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things. -- Oswald Chambers
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence. -- Swami Vivekananda
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. -- Laozi
My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things. -- Grover Cleveland
It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. -- Sarah Dessen
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. -- Laozi
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. -- Benjamin Franklin
One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors. -- Eric Balfour
Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love -- Alan Jackson
Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things. -- Robert E. Howard
Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me. -- Charles Bukowski
In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me. -- Nicholas Sparks
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things. -- Martin Luther
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most. -- Muhammad Ali
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most -- Muhammad Ali
A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things. -- Barbara Taylor Bradford
Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around. -- Matthew Ashimolowo
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries -- Alan Alda
Among the great things which are to be found among us, the being of nothingness is the greatest. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder. -- Blaise Pascal
My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things. -- John Muir
I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world -- Ashton Kutcher
The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. -- Robinson Jeffers
The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.' -- Michael LeBoeuf
Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when hes going to make his comeback. -- Michael McMillian
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter. -- Francis Chan
The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good. -- Joe Biden
Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. -- Jim Rohn
You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow. -- Christopher Pike
Switch-hitting is one of the greatest things in the world and one of the worst things in the world. -- Mark Teixeira
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. -- Carl Jung
Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need. -- Andrew Solomon
I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur. -- Sam Walter Foss
The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others -- Walt Disney
The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.... -- Peace Pilgrim
The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them. -- Juan Ramon Jimenez
The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free. -- Yanni
The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It's not easy. But absolutely worth it. -- Robin Sharma
Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush. -- John Lyly
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. -- Epicurus
The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. -- Peace Pilgrim
Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love. -- Ziggy Marley
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. -- Aristotle
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. -- B. C. Forbes
I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary. -- Ashton Kutcher
It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us. -- Jack Canfield
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning. -- Anthony Trollope
We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure. -- Whit Stillman
I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class... -- Angie Harmon
Be willing to dance the victory dance as if your greatest dreams are realized, and watch how easily things fall into place. -- Colette Baron-Reid
I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions. -- Sigmund Freud
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. -- Plato
Whenever someone has the ability to impact people's lives, I think that's one of the greatest things that God gives us as individuals. -- Andy Pettitte
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. -- Denis Diderot
Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil. -- Plato
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom. -- Carl Jung
She didn't judge him or hate him for things that weren't his fault. She accepted him and that was the greatest miracle of all. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is. -- David Bowie
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else. -- Sara Blakely
The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things -- James Howard Kunstler
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. -- John Maynard Keynes
Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength. -- Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises. -- Marlo Thomas
You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next? -- John McGraw
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things. -- Oswald Chambers
It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do. -- Buzz Aldrin
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. -- E. M. Forster
This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
To be really successful and win a title with a great club like Liverpool would be 100% one of the greatest things I could ever imagine. -- Jurgen Klopp
Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm. -- Sam Cawthorn
The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Being off the road is one of the greatest things ever. It's hard for me to be around my friends who are on the road. -- Kevin Drew
I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength. -- Nate Powell
We didn't make ourselves," she says. "We aren't the greatest things to exist. I can't believe that. I won't believe that. We have too many faults. -- Lauren DeStefano
Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves. -- Jonathan Carroll
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
The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing. -- Richard Bandler
The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs. -- Robyn Davidson

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