Greatness quotes - page 25

It isn\'t where you came from, its where you\'re going that counts.
It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.
 Ella Fitzgerald
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
 Phyllis Schlafly
So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?
 Laini Taylor
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Let silence take you to the core of life.
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
 Larry Page
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute." "Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away." - Simon, 133
The ecstasy and completion of absorption in God is so fantastic that you can't possibly have lost anything because all the things you've always loved and always experienced came forth from there and exist there and are always there.
Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.
Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.
 Leigh Hunt
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
 Dodie Smith
Money is the best deodorant.
 Elizabeth Taylor
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is.
 R. G. LeTourneau
You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.
 Amy Chan
I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.
 Christopher Parker
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
 Linus Pauling
If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.
 Quentin Tarantino
That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.
That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.
Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.