#greatness

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#eyes #gag #greatness #loosen #our

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#despise #even #father #faults #german

France cannot be France without greatness. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#france #greatness #without

Now the big question is: what direction are you moving? Look inward; there is a burning desire in your heart that will make you the person you can become – A superstar! ↗

— Maureen Lawrence

#greatness #lawrence #leadership #maureen #the-secrets-of-superstar

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#enthusiasm #greatness #music #art

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

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

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