“One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.” HumansStatesCertainHuman BeingsFailingGreatnessBuildingDisciplineOvercomingArmyEmpiresSuperiorityHierarchyEmpire State BuildingEmpire State Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.” IfsMenHumansDoneFactsHuman BeingsGreatnessOccasionsGreat Men Author:Sigmund Freud
“The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.” ThinkingHumansLife IsGoalStepsGreaterGreatnessKeysHabitRootsLeapSmall Steps Author:Robert Genn
“It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.” HumansSportsGreaterGreatnessSelf Respect Author:Will Rogers
“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.” ThinkingGivingHumansMeanEvilHuman NatureGreatnessWillingReadyGoodnessEarsWelcomeJealousyReportsCalumnyCalumny Is Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
“I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.” IfsTryingHumansLittlesCharacterStoriesAnimalSecretEventsGreatnessAdultsWarmSatireHistoricFoibles Book:Walt Disney: Conversations Source: Walt Disney: Conversations
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.” WorldLoveInspirationalHumansAgeAbleHappinessLyingPeaceLeadershipHuman BeingsFamilyGreatnessSelf ImprovementGardenPersonal GrowthMythImprovementInner PeaceHumankindSelf DevelopmentRemakes Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.” IfsGivingHumansDoeImportantSoulReasonFeelingsRealityArtistPassionTermMoralBoysGreatnessBalanceIntegrityVicesCreatorIntellectMythRangeAccustomedSpecialistsScoundrelsMagnanimityBoy ScoutMoral Integrity Author:Jacques Barzun