Ki Longfellow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.

  • A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

  • You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

  • She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

  • Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.

  • Education has a tremendous power on man. Can't we see to which astonishing disciple the people of Sparte have submitted ("s'est plié", Fr.) for centuries, and this with a view to very petty purposes: purely outer greatness, the military predominace of Sparte. This example proves that man can everything on themselves when they want it ("peuvent tout sur eux-mêmes quand ils le veulent", Fr.); therefore it would only be a question of making them will the good.

  • You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

  • The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.

  • If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.

  • The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness.  They show you to its door.