When confronted by a human being who impresses us as truly great, should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his failures? —Lou Andreas-Salome More about this quote Tags: knowledge failure greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “greatness” Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public-relations officers. —Daniel Boorstin More about this quote Tags: perception greatness public relations destiny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: education greatness physics service college Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism. —Elizabeth Gilbert in Love More about this quote Tags: love optimism relationship risk romance greatness men Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. —Rose Kennedy More about this quote Tags: greatness luck struggle prosperity adversity good fortune Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi to come back, but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. —Marian Wright Edelman More about this quote Tags: action change effort greatness waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public-relations officers. —Daniel Boorstin More about this quote Tags: perception greatness public relations destiny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: education greatness physics service college Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism. —Elizabeth Gilbert in Love More about this quote Tags: love optimism relationship risk romance greatness men Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. —Rose Kennedy More about this quote Tags: greatness luck struggle prosperity adversity good fortune Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi to come back, but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. —Marian Wright Edelman More about this quote Tags: action change effort greatness waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email