Greatness quotes - page 19

The only failure is not to try.
The only failure is not to try.
 George Clooney
I started off as a Star Trek fan, and to be able to work on the series was a great honor.
 Manny Coto
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
 Susie Orbach
I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.
This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.
 Ellen Barkin
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
 Morrie Schwartz
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
 William Makepeace Thackeray
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
 Tom Landry
The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.
 Chinmayananda Saraswati
But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.
But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.
The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.
Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
 Herodotus
If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner\'s dock rather than the way to honors, we will have accomplished something toward making the peace more secure.
If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner's dock rather than the way to honors, we will have accomplished something toward making the peace more secure.
 Robert H. Jackson
Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.