Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.
Greatness quotes - page 36
Now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honour the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show.
Jodie Foster
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.
Alveda King
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
There's nothing creative about living within your means.
Francis Ford Coppola
Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.
As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'
Cindy Crawford
After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a pact that has already been signed; it's a secret told to the mouth rather than to the ear.
Edmond Rostand
What positive things have you said to yourself today? Acknowledge your greatness.
Chalene Johnson
When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
Nothing honors God more than a Big Dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish!
Mark Batterson
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.
Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.
Belle de Jour
I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
Witold Gombrowicz
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.
Arianna Huffington
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
Bill Paxton