#greatness

After reaching your highest peak, descending the mountain may indeed seem to be the easy path. However, do not lose yourself, for the decline may tarnish or lessen both the memory and reality of that which you have already striven to achieve. ↗

— R.Dalton

#decline #greatness #real-life #life

Somewhere in the background of magnificence lurks the kitchen staff. But a magnificent person only forgets about his origins, never his brunch. ↗

— Bauvard

#greatness #humor #magnificence #meals #funny

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#goes #great #greatness #half #heroes

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ↗

— James Buchanan

#elicit #greatness #humanity #into #leadership

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

#been #before #camera #duty #embodiment

Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness. ↗

— Franco Harris

#chance #could #decade #great #great team

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man. ↗

— Shams-ud-din Muhammed Hafiz

#inspirational #three-cups-of-tea #inspirational

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement. ↗

— Sonny Perdue

#constant #course #destination #follow #greatness

There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know. ↗

— Jack Scalia

#greatness #kids #know #many #today

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#belief #beliefs #center #cooperation #dedication