“Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.” YearsPersonsEndsDoneCharacterOpportunityJusticePartyKnowingVirtueGreatnessFaultsCeaseEngagedStationsDispositionEnmityTrue CharacterKnowing The Truth Book:Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste
“For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.” YearsGivenVirtueGreatnessTypeKingsThousandThousand YearsManlyChristendom Author:Theodore Parker
“Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.” WorldWayYearsHumansSometimesMomentsHandsFallIndividualForceGrowsLeadershipHuman BeingsPowerfulFateMinutesGreatnessElementsAssumingViolentObedienceThreadWorld HistoryAstonishingDependencyIntangibleElementalsSubservientTwitching Author:Stefan Zweig
“It's your time for a breakthrough! Make up your mind to leave the past and the old you behind. Focus on giving birth to a new you....the real you. It is your time to create a turning point for the better in your life. It is your destiny to be healthy, happy and successful.Your future is open, full of possibility and promise! Buckle down and do whatever is required to create a life that you are proud of and a life that you deserve! Don't look back!! Look ahead, move forward and make this your best year ever! You have the something special. You have GREATNESS within you!” GivingYearsMindLooksRealPastMovingBehindsDestinySuccessfulFocusSpecialPossibilityGreatnessProudBirthPromiseHealthyDeserveDown AndHappyMoving ForwardMoving OnOur FutureWithin YouBeing HappyOur DestinyYour FutureBreakthroughChanging Your LifeYour DestinyDeservingTurning PointsSomething SpecialOld YouGiving BirthInfinite PossibilitiesSelf TransformationReal YouBest YearNew Years ResolutionMake Up Your MindNew YouBucklesSpecial YouNew Year MotivationalLeaving The PastGreatness WithinHealthy Happy Author:Les Brown
“Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.” YearsHas BeensCareersExampleGreatnessLegendsMentorOver 50 Author:Yolanda Adams
“The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.” ShouldYearsActionOur LivesGreatnessMultitudesOur Actions Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“I've spent the last few years really trying to come out of that belief system. Speaking mythologically, it's like Beauty and the Beast. The beast kidnaps the beauty until she learns to love him for who he is. In a sense, our negative beliefs kidnap our greatness, our life-force. We have to go and kiss them.” TryingYearsLastsBeliefForceOur LivesGreatnessKissingNegativeBeastBelief SystemsNegative Beliefs Author:Francis Dunnery
“Rob McElhenney who runs 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.' That show absolutely kills me and I am stunned by the consistency of greatness it has maintained over what is now a record breaking amount of seasons ... How do you do that for so many years? My 14-year-old daughter and I watch it together and we both laugh crazy hard.” YearsHardShowsRunningTogetherWatchesLaughingRecordsCrazyGreatnessAmountDaughterSeasonsConsistencyKill MeSunnyPhiladelphiaStunnedAlways SunnyRecords BreakingAlways Sunny In PhiladelphiaSunny In Philadelphia Author:Louis C. K.
“To be honest, there are many things said about Russia because they have been demonized for years at the behest of the USA. It is part of the greatness of a European country to develop one's own opinion and to not view everything through the US lens. We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.” IfsYearsHas BeensSaidCountryViewsOpinionTeachHonestGreatnessLessonsRedChinaRussiaBeing HonestUsaLensesCarpetArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisRed CarpetEuropean CountriesQatar Author:Marine Le Pen
“Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.” YearsMadeTwoNationsSimpleEconomyMilitaryGreatnessPrideHundredYears AgoSizeHeightTonightPatrioticDeclarationPremisesSkyscraper Author:Barack Obama
“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.” IfsWantInspirationalGivingTryingYearsCan DoHurtSilenceWonderKnowingWorstAwarenessGreatnessSilentPersonal DevelopmentWorst ThingsHurt FeelingsSuccessful LifeBelief In Self Author:Jim Rohn
“Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.” MenInspirationalYearsBelieveWould BeBeliefFeltGreatnessYears AgoAgreeFoolish Author:Jim Rohn
“You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.” PeopleWorldYearsFirstsHas BeensTwoEndsEarthLastsMemoriesGreatnessAnd LoveHomelessRemembranceSplendourLive And Love Author:Boris Pasternak
“Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one’s life, but of the quality of one’s life. True greatness is not always tied to the scope of our tasks, but to the quality of how we carry out our tasks whatever they are. In that attitude, let us give our time, ourselves, and our talents to the things that really matter now, things which will still matter a thousand years from now.” GivingYearsStillsMatterRememberAttitudeQualityTalentGreatnessThousandTasksScalesOur TimeTiedThousand YearsScopeTrue LifeTrue Greatness Author:Spencer W. Kimball
“There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.” MenYearsMayMemoriesHalfGreatnessGreat MenHalf A Year Author:William Shakespeare
“My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best."” KnowsYearsMightAmericaNationsGreatnessRevolutionCitizensFellowsGoldenNew LifeAmerican RevolutionRebornGolden Years Author:Ronald Reagan
“If becoming your most extraordinary self doesn't inspire you, if claiming your greatness doesn't get you moving in the morning, if you don't think you are worthy of going after your best life, then dedicate this year to someone else and make it your best for them.” IfsThinkingYearsSelfMovingMorningGreatnessInspireBecomingExtraordinaryWorthyMoving In Author:Debbie Ford
“To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.” YearsWellsLongHardSeemsHoursLevelsNumbersPracticeMagicGreatnessAmountThousandTenChessNineElitesLegendaryNine Years Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Truth is power, but only when one has patience and requires of it no immediate effect. And one must have no specific aims. Somehow, lack of an agenda is the greatest power. Sometimes it is better not to think in terms of plans; here months may mean nothing, and also years. Truth must be sought for its own sake, its holy, divine greatness.” ThinkingYearsMayMeanSometimesTermPlansEffectsGreatnessDivineMonthsHolyTruth IsAimSakeAgendasHaving Patience Author:Romano Guardini
“Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.” ThinkingMenYearsMomentsLyingGreatnessResponseGreat MenThat Moment Author:Timothy Findley