Greatness quotes - page 23
I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there. My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
Thomas Eakins
You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine.
Les Brown
Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
Roger Staubach
My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.
Demi Lovato
Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.
Deborah Day
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
None of us will honor our Heavenly Father and our Savior more than by serving as a devoted, compassionate missionary, "For them that honour me I will honour.
I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.
To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
Marian Wright Edelman
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.
It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
William P. Young
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
Lincoln Steffens
I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
Jeff Bezos
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
