The Pursuit Of Greatness Quotes

#1. Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat. - Author: Mark Twain

#2. Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo. - Author: Cornel West

#3. A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness. - Author: Vince Lombardi

#5. You deserve them because you chose them. - Author: Ned Vizzini

#6. The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. - Author: Pat Conroy

#7. There's a way to live like a god. - Author: Stefan Emunds

#8. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all? - Author: Joseph Conrad

#9. Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better. - Author: Jane Rule

#10. I remember as a child hearing of the horrors of life in the Soviet Union. There was supposedly only one kind of store, a gigantic windowless dispensary staffed by listless, surly functionaries selling cheaply made, generic goods. It sounds a lot like Wal-Mart. - Author: Charles Eisenstein

#11. Not even the human
imagination satisfies
the endless emptiness of the soul. - Author: Allen Ginsberg

#12. Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them. - Author: Jack Kingston

#13. I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity. - Author: Carla Hall

#14. Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity! - Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. - Author: May Sarton

#16. Our pride, our ego, our fear of failing too often keeps us from achieving greatness, keeps us stuck in jobs we don't like, working with people we can't stand, engaging in pursuits we're not wholeheartedly passionate about. - Author: Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

#17. All great men face challenges in the pursuit of their goals. However, the challenges did not deter them for pushing forward and realizing their goals. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. You bet they did. Dellray was there. You should've seen him. He ordered every other case put on hold and said if metallurgy report wasn't in your hands ASAP there'd be one mean mother - you get the picture - reaming their - you get the rest of the picture. - Author: Jeffery Deaver

#19. As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable. - Author: Katherine Helmond

#21. It's been said racing encompasses hours of agony and moments of glory.
But moments like the 1978 Triple Crown inspire the pursuit of greatness. - Author: Steve Cauthen

#22. Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence. - Author: Vince Lombardi

#23. With relentless pursuit of success comes greatness. - Author: Joshua Okello

#24. I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough