“Great” is an adjective used to describe something that is of high quality, excellent, or remarkable in a positive sense. When people use the term “great,” they typically express satisfaction, admiration, or approval for something or someone.

For example:

• “That was a great movie!”
• “She did a great job on her presentation.”
• “I had a great time at the party.”
• “Great” can also be used to indicate magnitude or size, as in “a great distance” or “a great amount.”

It’s a versatile word that is commonly used to convey a positive sentiment about various aspects of life, experiences, achievements, or qualities.

Great Quotes

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

2. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
— Vincent Van Gogh

3. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
— William Arthur Ward

4. “A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.”
— Marcus Aurelius

5. “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

6. “The price of greatness is responsibility.”
— Winston Churchill

7. “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”
— Nelson Mandela

8. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
— Plato

9. “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”
— Muhammad Ali

10. “Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

11. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
— William James

12. “The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.”
— Mencius

13. “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
— Moliere

14. “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.”
— Helen Keller

15. “Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
— Henry Ward Beecher

16. “The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

17. “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
— Henry David Thoreau

18. “See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.”
— Pope John XXIII

19. “What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

20. “One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton

21. “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
— Jack Kerouac

22. “Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”
— Florence Scovel Shinn

23. “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
— Pablo Picasso

24. “You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.”
— Henry Rollins

25. “Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.”
— Fran Lebowitz

26. “Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.”
— Carl Jung

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

28. “Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.”
— Zhuangzi

29. “Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.”
— David Hume

30. “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”
— Robert Hughes

31. “Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
— Phillips Brooks

32. “Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.”
— Denis Diderot

33. “One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
— Mother Teresa

34. “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
— William Shakespeare

35. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
— Napoleon Hill

36. “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”
— Vince Lombardi

37. “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
— Honore de Balzac

38. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

39. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
— Albert Einstein

40. “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
— Socrates

41. “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
— Leonard Bernstein

42. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.”
— Elbert Hubbard

43. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
— Charles R. Swindoll

44. “The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

45. “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
— John F. Kennedy

46. “The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.”
— Thomas S. Monson

47. “Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
— William Blake

48. “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

49. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
— Oprah Winfrey

50. “The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?”
— Sigmund Freud

51. “There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
— Leo Tolstoy

52. “A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”
— Chanakya

53. “A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.”
— B. R. Ambedkar

54. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
— Robert Kennedy

55. “Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.”
— Saint Augustine

56. “You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.”
— Tom Hopkins

57. “Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.”
— Publilius Syrus

58. “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”
— Washington Irving

59. “He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.”
— James Allen

60. “The greater the effort, the greater the glory.”
— Pierre Corneille