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 | "All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant"s
revolving door." | |
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Albert Camus
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| "Great men are those who have had noble purposes to achieve, great
tasks to perform, or mighty causes to vindicate. A high expression of
self-mastery is but the reflection of these great purposes upon
personality and character. The demand upon character molds the essential
self-mastery; the goal forges the strength needed to achieve it.... In
your reading you have probably found the oft-repeated syllogism: ?Great
minds have purposes, others have wishes.? ... Great purposes demand and
endow strong minds; wishes need only weak minds. The soundness of this
principle is found in the fact that men are not great until they have
achieved great things. The strength is the product of the struggle; the
endowment follows the achievement. Nature never pays an unearned account;
and she never fails to pay one that is earned. In fact, earning is
possessing; the two processes are simultaneous." | |
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Leo J. Muir
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| "It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "It"s hard to be humble, when you"re as great as I am." | |
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Muhammad Ali
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| "The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the
greatness comes when you"re really tested, when you take some knocks, some
disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you"ve been in the
deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the
highest mountain." | |
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Richard Milhouse Nixon
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| "When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I
feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the
ability to share feelings and thoughts through language." | |
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James Earl Jones
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