65 Grand Quotes On Success In Life
These grand quotes will inspire you. Grand magnificent and imposing in appearance, size, or style.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging grand quotes, grand sayings, and grand proverbs.
Best Grand Quotes
- “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” Joseph Addison
- “A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.” Gertrude Jekyll
- “It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out.” Evan Peters
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“Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.” Paul Stamets
- “Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.” James Thomson
- “You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it’s not about grand innovation, it’s about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.” Jason Calacanis
- “Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.” Sharon Draper
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“Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.” Donald G. Mitchell
- “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie
- “I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that’s when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.” Evan Peters
- “Maybe you weren’t born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That’s right. Even if you don’t own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.” John Garamendi
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“Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.” George Will
- “Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.” Ronald Reagan
- “If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don’t take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- “Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!” Jane Taylor
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“No matter what problem you encounter, whether it’s a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there’s an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.” Ray Kurzweil
- “We didn’t have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.” Anne Murray
- “No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don’t want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don’t know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again.” Diane von Furstenberg
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“An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.” Steven Weinberg
- “Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.” George Grey
- ” ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.” Quentin Tarantino
- “String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe – from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies – are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.” Brian Greene
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“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.” Franz Liszt
- ” I love the ukulele. It’s got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There’s something innocent and romantic, and it’s just a grand instrument to play.” Pierce Brosnan
- “Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” Don Marquis
- “When I did the video for ‘Holding Out For A Hero,’ we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon, and that was quite frightening. I was close to the edge, and there was a helicopter hovering about, creating a lot of wind, and I was nervous I was going to fall off.” Bonnie Tyler
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“There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.” Murray Walker
- “Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.” Bernard Williams
- “The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.” Samuel Johnson
- “I feel that I’m in good company behind the wheel of the Williams FW08C. It was the first F1 car to be driven by the great Ayrton Senna, and it won the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix.” Guy Martin
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“I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.” Bob Uecker
- “For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we’d start in St Tropez. I’d collect my bikinis from my home there and then we’d go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix, and then to Italy.” Ivana Trump
- “Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain’t as big as the Grand Ole Opry.” Patsy Cline
- “Apartheid – both petty and grand – is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.” Steven Biko
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“I’m an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He’s somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.” Nicolas Cage
- “The Creator of the seas, sands and endless stars is reaching out to you this very day! He is offering the grand recipe for happiness, peace, and eternal life!” Dieter F. Uchtdorf
- “The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we’re in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.” Vin Diesel
- “Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.” Taylor Swift
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“The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.” John Wesley Powell
- “The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north, its passes alone reaching an altitude of nearly 18,000 feet; while to the south, across a gravelly descent and the Indus Valley, rise great read ranges dominated by snow-peaks exceeding 21,000 feet in altitude.” Isabella Bird
- “Today’s restaurant is theater on a grand scale.” Marian Burros
- “A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.” Galen Rowell
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“If you can’t play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it’s not a song.” Christopher Cross
- “When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life. ” Brigitte Bardot
- “You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else’s darkness.” Anthony Carmona
- “The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.” Philip Emeagwali
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“When you’re from the Bay Area, there’s this chip on your shoulder that you inherently come up with, because us, as a region, we’ve been overlooked in the grand scheme of the history of the genre and the culture.” G-Eazy
- “War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.” Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.” Galileo Galilei
- “It’s very, very special for me. This is where I’ve grown up, it’s my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver’s career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.” Nico Rosberg
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“As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.” Blake Shelton
- “I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.” John McCain
- “Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” Don Marquis
- “There’s something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.” Rachel Nichols
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” It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.” Benjamin Franklin
- “Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.” Murray Walker
- ” I’m the best PlayStation player you’ll ever see. I’ll play anything. ‘Call of Duty,’ ‘NBA2K,’ ‘Grand Theft Auto.’ ” Ben Simmons
- “Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof – of which history offers so many examples – that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers, they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.” Paul Johnson
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“I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.” Robert Louis Stevenson
- “One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.” Joseph Smith, Jr.
- “My awareness left my body and ego, and went on a grand tour of the cosmos.” Jeff Lowe
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“You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.” John Wesley Powell
- “The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.” Jim Garrison
- “It’s like trying to describe what you feel when you’re standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it’s like.” Jack Schmitt
