#great

Success is personal ownership of the dream, and responsibility for its desired outcome. ↗

— Johnnie Dent Jr.

#greatness #inspirational #dreams

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#clichés #dignity #equality #fiction #gender

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

#death #event #every #god #great

We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#change #destiny #greater-calling #helping-people #life

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British. ↗

— William Whipple

#british #cope #early #expect #greatest

Produce great men, the rest follows. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#great #great men #men #produce #rest

There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really careful about knowing what cash flows are supporting your investments. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#basis #blanket #careful #cash #flows

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#been #desire #few #fit #found

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#after #because #border #canada #city

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. ↗

— Edgar Winter

#as far as #blues #concerned #contributions #far