Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Euwe

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

Max Frisch

My greatest fear: repetition.

Matthew Lillard

You can inspire people to give you greatness, or you can micro-manage them into your own one specific kernel of an idea. To me, I think that when you inspire people to give their best, then you're going to get the best result.

Matthew Henry

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Maya Angelou

A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

Marianne Williamson

The world won't step into its greatness until we step into ours.

Marianne Williamson

Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.

Marianne Williamson

Daily life is the enemy of greatness.

Mae Jemison

Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.

Michael Caine

I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again.

Mia Wasikowska

I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.

Michael Jordan

I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that.

Marie Corelli

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

Theophile Gautier

When we love - we grow

Theodore Parker

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

Theodore Parker

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

Theodore Parker

The most useful is the greatest.

Theodore Parker

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

Theodore Parker

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

Theodore Parker

Greatness is its own torment.

Theodore Roosevelt

When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

Themistocles

I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness...whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.

Terry McMillan

don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

Margaret Fuller

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

Michelangelo

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

I guess one of the big things is that it is a unique opportunity and you never know if you'll have another one down the road. One of the things I tell my players, and I include myself in that, is the process of striving for self-improvement. I look at this as a great opportunity for professional development.

I had a great year with No. 10 on.

Jesper Parnevik

I had a great year going in 2000,

Mary Pierce

I had a great tournament in Moscow last week but physically I was pushed to the limit, and now I am paying a price for that.

I had a great time working with him. We would take a lot of takes to try things out.

Jasmine Trias

I had a great time recording and working with the producers. I really got to work with great producers, and different producers with different work ethics.

Joe Roberts

I had a great time. I think it was superb.

Bode Miller

I had a great time at Nagano in 1998, when no-one knew me and I could do what I wanted. I went out with my friends and went to watch all the sports.