Greatness quotes - page 6
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.
Dawn French
My mom is definitely my rock.
Alicia Keys
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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.
You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
William J. H. Boetcker
Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.
Mary McLeod Bethune
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
Samuel Richardson
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
Daniel Day-Lewis
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as... the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian varietals Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are planted in its cooler climates.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
Vaclav Havel
I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.
Martina Hingis
And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
Patricia Hewitt
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I am honored to have served. I'm glad I ran. It is a huge honor to be able to be a two-term president. It was really a great experience. I'm fortunate to have been able to serve. And I think that's enough.
Know the great men of your age.
Baltasar Gracian
