Greatness quotes - page 9
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.
Russell Conwell
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Mario Cuomo
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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Your honor, throughout this process I've asked the government and the court to hold me and only me accountable for my actions.
Jesse Jackson, Jr.
I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.
Jimmy Carl Black
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Ram Dass
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Marx did not recognize that our desire to connect with a transcendent power runs even deeper than our drive for economic satisfaction. Each of us seeks. How we honor each other's search will tell the tale of the next millennium.
Jeffrey Klein
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono
If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.
Samuel Fuller
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
Venus Williams
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Tim Ferriss
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
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If we played Boston four-on-four, without Russell, we probably would have won every series. That guy killed us. He's the one who prevented us from achieving true greatness.
Rod Hundley