Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. "

Related Quotes:

" A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. "

" For a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you. "

" Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. "

" Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. "

" Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy. "

" Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. "

" I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way. "

" No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. "

Charles E. Wilson

" It's so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to and have a completely different perspective of the song and have their own meaning. That's what's great about it. "

" The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

" There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges. "

" Success has always been a great liar. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. "

" Silence is a source of great strength. "

" I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It's like an offering. "

Christopher Walken

" We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy. "

Lorraine Toussaint

" Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers. "

" What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes. "

" The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. "

Barry Eichengreen

Great Depression

" The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this. "

" There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. "

" Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. "

W. Clement Stone

" It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other. "

" Civil engineers build bridges. Electrical engineers, power grids. Software engineers, apps. From the engineers who created the Great Pyramids to the engineers who are designing and developing tomorrow's autonomous vehicles, these visionaries and their tangible creations are inextricably linked. "

" I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always. "

" The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. "

" It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories. "

" Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. "

" A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. "

" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "