We grow small trying to be great. —David Hockney More about this quote Tags: growth greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you — and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us! —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Tags: sin pride greatness animals earth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: future soul greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. —Daniel J. Boorstin More about this quote Tags: humor achievement greatness public relations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater. —Veronica Roth in Allegiant More about this quote Tags: love accomplishment giving greatness bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. —Mencius More about this quote Tags: childhood greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. —Stewart Udall More about this quote Tags: fear power greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment. For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it, nor seeking to be understood but learning to understand. And when it is all over, there will be an agony of remorse because one spared the effort and did not make more of that little span of opportunity; and knowing reality at last, who knows but that one will look back with unassuageable regret upon one's pitiful little faith. —Vivienne de Watteville More about this quote Tags: understanding love reality kindness beauty learning discovery regret faith loss effort greatness opportunity generosity envy agony remorse Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. —Stewart I. Udall More about this quote Tags: fear power greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. —Arthur Schopenhauer More about this quote Tags: solitude greatness eagles 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
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
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
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
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