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Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my thoughts, have me for your companion, confidant, and information bureau? What do you take me for? Am I an entertainer on salary, required every evening to play an intellectual farce under your stupid noses? Am I a slave, bought and paid for, to crawl on my belly in front of you idlers and lay at your feet all that I do and all that I know?

Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.

Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.

Great leaders rally people to a better future.

Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.

Great companies make meaning. A company has a name, but its people give it meaning.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Greatest misconception about Wikipedia: We aren’t democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we’re actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn’t be writing.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.

Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.

Great leaders make people feel important.

Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.

Great soul of Gandhi, cover your ears. You will not want to hear this! Listen, you inbred piece of Ku Klux Krap! You white people love to be racist, but the only races you can tell apart are Indianapolis and Daytona. I hope I am reincarnated as toothpaste, so I never have to see you again. Now take your twelve-pack of wife-beating juice and get the park out of my store!

Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.

Great people do things before they're ready...You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something.

Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

Great teams are usually small-under fifty in total head count. (There are few examples of a team made up of hundreds of people who created anything revolutionary.) Big teams aren't conducive to revolutionary products because such products require a high degree of single-mindedness, unity, and unreasonable passion.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, Greatness is being accepted by the people.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness.

Great people create great acts of kindness.

Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.

Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes.

Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

Great people have great values and great ethics.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing for me to know now that AIDS, for instance, is something a lot of people don't "get," whereas it entirely shaped my social life since the time I was twenty until I was almost forty.

Greg Gutfeld is funnier than all the smart people I know, and smarter than all the funny people I know. I don't know what that makes him. But one of the smartest, funniest people I know, is fair to say.

Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.