A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Great men don't strive for greatness, they simply do great works.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“These great men had no reciprocal appreciation the one for the other. Sumner was honest in the belief that Grant knew nothing… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved,… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
Study and discipline are the prerequisite to any form of accomplishment. Unfortunately however, studying is much like paying taxes for most of… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that… — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
“In those days, even in European countries, death had a solemn social importance. It was not regarded as a moment when certain… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. — Henry James Copy Share Image
The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
