#greatness

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#gaga #gagaklein #greatness #lady #music

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness. ↗

— Pierre Trudeau

#greatness #past #respect

But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness. ↗

— Marc Morris

#enoch-powell #greatness #racism #respect

The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures us, you must "not look too good nor talk too wise. ↗

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

#public-speaking #art

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ↗

— Mark Twain

#people

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. ↗

— Judy Garland

#greatness #individuality #being

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#night

Good and great are seldom in the same man. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#virtue #virtue

A great man is always willing to be little. ↗