Greatness quotes - page 12
Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?
Lou Andreas-Salomé
I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.
Naomi Watts
I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.
Marie Osmond
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
Philip Sidney
It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.
Claire Danes
Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.
Emma Watson
The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?
Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
Ben Hogan
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.
Elena Kagan
Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable.
Jon Krakauer
The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.
There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.
Henry de Montherlant
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.
