#greatness

In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I’ve a terrible fondness for women, a tendency towards drunkenness, and a weakness for the fumes of the poppy—opium and other miserable beauties. ↗

— Roman Payne

#drunkeness #greatness #heroin #opium #poppies

Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin. ↗

— Todd Stocker

#business #coffee #excellence #greatness #hope

Great men know how to control two things; their women and money. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#leadership #male-female-relationship #women #leadership

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt... They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear ↗

— Ayn Rand

#greatness #mediocrity #dreams

People have this dream of being unreachable. They build a name for themselves and then finally fulfill their dream of "being more important." Which just shows they were born from down below. Because when you're born from up above, your dreams have nowhere to go but downwards! And you dream of doing things in order to meet people, to know them, to understand the smallest importances! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#greatness #importance #importances #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

Multiply your potentials with your plans and it will be equal to your purpose of existence. Your potentials are your seeds of greatness. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#achievements #achievers #big-dreams #dare-to-win #dream-big

Rise to the challenge of bringing your dreams to life! Do not be discouraged by resistance, be nourished by it. Success is the experience of rising to the level of your true greatness. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dreams #experience #greatness #inspirational #life

Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#gratitude #greatness #inspirational #life #inspirational

A man becomes Mahadev only when he fights for good. ↗

— Amish Tripathi

#greatness #inspirational-quotes #inspirational

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#ambition #democracy #egalitarianism #equality #essence