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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

In other words, do not expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say we have a problem, let's go and get it.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we do not encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Rock n roll is ridiculous. It is absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we are wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

I was an OK boxer, I was not great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there is nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There is a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally Does not have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.