Top 1200 Destined For Greatness Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Amazon and Snap both have stories that are compelling for many investors: Amazon has transformed retailing and is destined to dominate it. Snap is reinventing communication, at least for millennials and those even younger.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

I'm willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

Be ready and willing to be a beginner every morning. That's how you grow and step into your greatness

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

I am used to wearing corsets. Even when I was first starting out it was either Shakespeare or Chekov. Everything that I was doing involved corsets. I guess I am just not destined to breathe that deeply.

If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow.

When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

Reach for greatness, nothing less. And make sure you have some fun along the way.

Thank you for bringing me to ThunderClan. Tell Bluestar I have always been grateful for the home she gave me. This is a good place to die. I only regret that I will miss watching you become what StarClan has destined you to be.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

Investment in public infrastructure is key to America's greatness and essential to our national security.

Leaders who insulate themselves from others and choose to bear their burdens single-handedly are destined for loneliness and burnout. Leaders, like everyone else, need friends and perhaps in light of the load they carry, even more so.

You switched the days," I said, dismayed. "You blew the tire. You..." I trailed off, probably because the next words out of my mouth were either going to be "You are enough to do this?" or "You're destined for a life of crime." It was a toss-up either way.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.

At first, when we had the Golden Truth, it was fun - but it was always in the back of my head that I'm destined for so much more. I can be so much better than this, than the old comedy act that they want me to be.

We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized?

The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.

You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

I think it's important, no matter your profession, to never become complacent and always strive for greatness.

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

The universe is filled with the evidence of God's greatness. In awesome wonder we can consider the worlds He has made.

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

We will work to modify and remove some European parameters, but regarding the euro, I remain convinced that the single currency is destined to end: not because I want it but because the facts, common sense, and the real economy dictate it.

Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run ("ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la longue", Fr.); all that involve (or imply...) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.

True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one.

Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.

The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

Greatness consists in deciding only what is necessary for the welfare of the country and making straight for the goal.

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.