Greatness quotes - page 44

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.
 Kirk Douglas
God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.
I'm very honored to play one of the women in the movie Volver, and it was special acting with all those other talented actresses. Carmen Maura is a legend and it was a thrill to make a movie with her.
Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part.
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.
 Justin Beckett
There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.
There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.
 Lee Hammond
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
 Brandon Sanderson
With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.
 Basil Moreau
Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.
 Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.
 Donny Deutsch
I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.
 Audre Lorde
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Casting is 65 percent of directing.
 John Frankenheimer