Greatness quotes - page 26

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.
 David Maister
The act of discovering  who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
 Diane Sawyer
Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!
The more one judges, the less one loves.
To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
 Kathryn Bigelow
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn\'t make me stronger.
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
 Lou Holtz
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.
At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers
 Kathleen Turner
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
 Matthew Arnold
For what I have accomplished and what I have become, I have to to thank my industry much more, my indefatigable working, rather than any outstanding talent.
 Richard Dedekind
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd
Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
I must honor those who fight of their own free will, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me.
I must honor those who fight of their own free will, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me.
 Christopher Isherwood
Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
 Bette Davis