Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fernando Vargas

Absolutely. He's a great champion. Right now, I'm going to rest, heal up, regroup.

Abby's done a great job, ... I think she's fine-tuning it a little bit.

Alain Vigneault

A big momentum switch there. Our power play had some great chances, to give up that ... (it) really hurt us.

The more standing water you have, the greater the probability for mosquito populations to develop.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside

Shane Claiborne

Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

Sean Astin

There is nothing as special as watching greatness.

Sidney Lanier

I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies.

Sebastian Horsley

I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.

Seth Godin

You can't shrink your way to greatness!

Seth Godin

When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.

Seth Godin

When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.

Seth Godin

Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.

Seth Godin

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

Seth Godin

Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.

Seth Godin

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

Seth Godin

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Seth Godin

Go ahead, do something impossible.

Tom Cruise

I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.

Socrates

The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed

John Milton

He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

Norm Dicks

I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

Nina Hagen

Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day.

Mike Tyson

Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people

Miguel de Cervantes

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

John Piper

What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin.

John Wesley

God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.

John W. Gardner

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

John W. Gardner

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

John Tillotson

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.