Tempt For Greatness Quotes & Sayings

The hero of yesterday becomes the tyrant of tomorrow, unless he crucifies himself today. — Joseph Campbell

Treat your employees like customers. — Herb Kelleher

I never said good-bye.'
'Such a needless word, she said, 'when you love somebody. — Mitch Albom

We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong. — Fernando Pessoa

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there. — Graham Greene

Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.' It is in this way that the librarian has become a censor of literature... books that distinctly commend what is wrong, that teach how to sin and how pleasant sin is, sometimes with and sometimes without the added sauce of impropriety, are increasingly popular, tempting to the author to imitate them, the publishers to produce, the bookseller to exploit. Thank heaven they do not tempt the librarian. — Arthur E. Bostwick

Man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear of this life have some meaning and goal in the future. — Alan W. Watts

The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world. — Mike Tyson

Any person or nation can successfully duplicate any achievement that a person or nation succeeded in attaining. I am sure that Africa and other economically backward countries, that are sometimes referred to as third world countries, can attain a very high rate of development much faster than the time it took Europe and other first world countries. — Sunday Adelaja

The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from the beauty of landscape and the cold perfect form. This is a beauty that has suffered its way through the ache of desolation until the words or music emerged to equal the hunger and desperation at its heart. It must also be said that not all woundedness succeeds in finding its way through to beauty of form. Most woundedness remains hidden, lost inside forgotten silence. Indeed, in every life there is some wound that continues to weep secretly, even after years of attempted healing. Where woundedness can be refined into beauty a wonderful transfiguration takes place. — John O'Donohue

I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation. — Randy Falco

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever. — Gertrude The Great

No matter what our past is, or what labels have been placed on us, when we come to Him He erases all the labels, all the hurt and all the pain and He writes "I Love You" on our hearts. You are not who you have been told you are. In fact He says there is a stone with a name on it that only He knows. He doesn't even call you by your name. That is a name your parents gave you, but your Father in Heaven has named you too. What does He call you? What name does your Father speak over you? God has so much in store for your life, just receive His love today and know that He has a new name in store for you. — David M. Snyder

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously. — Fyodor Dostoevsky