Sean Astin Quotes

You are watching what greatness is all about.

Good God what a fine sight. I had no conception that there was such a scene in the world, and to find it in my own dominions.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

The universe is wonderful, but only when there is somebody there to wonder at it.

A Time of Greatness.

Get a look at greatness!

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

People never cease to amaze me.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

It is so inspiring when you come across a woman who is very strong and dedicated and is amazing at what they do. That's how I feel about Meryl Streep. You watch her, and you can't help but notice all of that about her. She's so influential.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

There's a lot of people I would be more than a little overwhelmed by and thrilled to work with.

If you look at us as a company, what's the one thing that's consistent? It has to be the biggest, the best, the greatest. My father, over the years, has bought some of the best mansions of the world. It's just something he loves.

Greatness is contagious.

To be recognised as the best in the whole world at something is an achievement.