The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
The root of all true greatness, is humility.
Pretend to be great; greatness will embrace you.
If your vision is great, you become great.
To be a great success, be happy today.
It’s a great day to write a best-seller.
You don't have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great.
Great minds don't think, they know.
Great knowledge, makes a great pain, in the world of pain.
An attitude of gratitude brings great things.
He is great whose faults can be numbered.
Great deeds come from times of shortage.
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
He said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical pleasure he bestowed upon me. Give it all to me. Give me your will.
It is an empirical judgement [to say] that I perceive and judge an object with pleasure. But it is an a priori judgement [to say] that I find it beautiful, i.e. I attribute this satisfaction necessarily to every one.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt
People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "care less". If you'll win, you must care!
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.
No," said he, smiling, "that is no subject of regret at all. I have no pleasure in seeing my friends, unless I can believe myself fit to be seen.
