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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.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

Bill Hicks

Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive.

E. F. Schumacher

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders....

E. F. Schumacher

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

David Shuster

Most of us entered journalism and joined news organizations because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

David Rubenstein

I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.

Carlos Slim

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

Charlie Crist

Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or research purposes shall notify the Anatomical Board of such intent and receive approval from the board.

Charles Stross

I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational!

Alan Ball

It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

Napoleon Hill

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

Peter Andrews

We've talked with PATH about establishing a vaccine-development center.

Robin Penn

I think it's f-----g pathetic to be belittling him,

Carolyn Sime

We're on a different path with the same goal.

Frank Black

I did start down that path some time ago,

Karl Harrison

I feel really sorry for the players at this time of year. I find it quite pathetic to be truthful.

Darren Shan

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

Caitlin Flanagan

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.