Greatness quotes - page 16
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
Chris Evert
To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.
No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.
John McGraw
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.
Lars von Trier
I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
Subhas Chandra Bose
If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.
W. Clement Stone
It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven.
Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.
Rosie O'Donnell
Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.
Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature... But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful.
Ann Curry
You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
