Into Motivation

Quotes by Bill Bryson "Now Stonewall Jackson is a man worth taking an interest in. Few people in history have achieved greater fame in a shorter period with less useful activity in the brainbox than General Thomas J. Jackson". Quotes by Jean de La Bruyere "The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets""That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with ... Read More

Quotes by Matthew Arnold "Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration". Quotes by Neil Armstrong "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". Quotes by Anonymous "Great persons seldom see their faces in a true glass. Great hopes make great men". Quotes by Anne "When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my ... Read More

Quotes by Dante "Che', seggendo in piuma, In fama non si vien, ne' sotto coltre. (For fame is not won by lying on a feather bed nor under a canopy.)" Quotes by Sir Noel Coward "Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington". Quotes by Stephen Grover Cleveland "They love him most for the enemies ha has made". Quotes by Sir Winston Churchill "[On Lord Charles Beresford] He is one of those orators, of whom it was well said, "Before they get up they do not know ... Read More

Quotes by Henry Wadsworth "Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night". Quotes by Abraham Lincoln "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it". Quotes by ... Read More

Quotes by Thomas Moore "Go where glory waits thee, But, while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me". Quotes by Michel de Montaigne "Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows". Quotes by John Milton "What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid, Under a starry-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit ... Read More

Quotes by Edward Young "One to destroy, is murder by the law; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands, takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame". Quotes by William Wordsworth "Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade, Of that which once was great is pass'd away". Quotes by John Wolcot "What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be d- -d than mentioned not at all!" Quotes by Andy Warhoi " In the future everybody ... Read More

Quotes by Arthur Meier Schlesinger "Above all [Kennedy] gave the world for an imperishable moment the vision of a leader who greatly understood the terror and the hope, the diversity and the possibility, of life on this planet and who made people look beyond nation and race to the future of humanity". Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt "It is better to be faithful than famous". Quotes by Alexander Pope "All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to fame. If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, ... Read More