Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

William Shakespeare

GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

William Shakespeare

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

William Shakespeare

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

Joe Paterno

I thought we showed some greatness last night.

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Dave Chappelle

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Carl Sagan

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Audre Lorde

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

Nelson Mandela

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

George H. W. Bush

Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction.

Ernest Holmes

Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

Patrick Ness

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

Jack Canfield

What is the why behind everything you do?

Tom Sturridge

I don't talk about my friends behind their back.

Martin McDonagh

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind