Direction Of Greatness Quotes & Sayings

Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse. — Louis De Bernieres

We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs. — Emanuel Cleaver

Three years is a long time." "It is to us. But in the scheme of things - not at all. I mean," said Andy reasonably, "look at some poor dumb bunny like Sabine Ingersoll or that idiot James Villiers. Forrest fucking Longstreet. — Donna Tartt

Perhaps it was our tragedies that aligned our paths in such a way that they would even be capable of crossing. — Megan Squires

When I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed
I've been dying all my life — Jenny Downham

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left. — Henry David Thoreau

Your future will definitely head to the same direction with your thoughts; this is why planning your thought is so important. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost. — Idowu Koyenikan

Wrong thinking will take your life the wrong way, channeling your thoughts to the right direction will cause you to soar in life. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For centuries, dreams have been used to communicate instruction and direction to people of purpose - great men and women. God used dreams to prepare Joseph for his future as a leader of nations. He gave battle plans to Gideon in a dream. Joan of Arc, Jacob, George Washington, Marie Curie, and the apostle Paul were all guided by their dreams. — Andy Andrews

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past. — Margaret Thatcher

No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task. — Charles R. Swindoll

Our world desperately needs change. We all know this. The scope of the change ranges from our lifestyles to the direction of our civilization. When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and the caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin. — Ilchi Lee

A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness
finds authority by being under authority
finds direction by laying down his plans
finds vision by seeing the needs of others
finds credibility by being an example
finds loyalty by expressing compassion
finds honor by being faithful
finds greatness by being a servant — Roy Lessin

If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad. There is so much, and I am torn in different directions, pulled thin, taut against horizons too distant for me to reach. To stop with the German tribes and rest awhile: But no! On, on, on. Through ages of empires, of decline and fall. Swift, ceaseless pace. Will I never rest in sunlight again - slow, languid & golden with peace? — Sylvia Plath

You can use songs, scriptures and godly pictures to chart your thought-course in the right direction. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

We are all insects," he said to Miss Ephreikian. "Groping toward something terrible or divine. Do you not agree? — Philip K. Dick

The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals. — Bryant McGill

But then there are the van Goghs and Hemingways and Mozarts, those who feel a hunger so deep, so far down, that greatness lies there too, nestled somewhere within it. Those who get their inner voice and direction from the cool mysterious insides of the moon, and not from the earth like the rest of us. — Deb Caletti