Greatness quotes - page 38
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
Lascelles Abercrombie
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
Gottfried Leibniz
The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.
John Polkinghorne
The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.
Spencer Johnson
I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.
Mike Schmidt
Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
John W. Gardner
No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.
Charles R. Swindoll
The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.
Alexander Crummell
[What's beautiful about my mother is] her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She's got a sparkle.
Kate Hudson
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?
Samuel Richardson
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
