Quotes of: Greatness Keyword

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

The Great Divorce

I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began

The Great Divorce

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

The Great Divorce

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

The Great Gatsby

Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.

The Great Gatsby

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

The Great Gatsby

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

The Great Gatsby

One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil

The Great Gatsby

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

The Great Gatsby

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

The Great Gatsby

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

The Great Gatsby

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

The Great Gatsby

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

The Great Gatsby

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

The Great Gatsby

I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

The Great Gatsby

When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen

The Great Promise

We live for our unfulfilled dreams when we are alive. Our fulfilled dreams live for us when we are gone!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

One of the critical factors that make people’s dreams become nightmares is that they don’t know there is a cost to be paid!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Thoughts are roots; Words are leaves; Actions are fruits! Every success tree has all working normally!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Big dreams are marathons. Passionate actions are marathons of marathons! Waiters don't deserve it; Quitters don't get it!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes