One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy. The courageous thing is to stick with it and see it through and see if you were correct.
Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.
A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria. ' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.
Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.
He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of mankind. He should use them so as to afford to every human being the greatest possible opportunity for developing and expressing his distinctively human capacity as an instrument of the spirit, as a centre of sensitive and intelligent awareness of the objective universe, as a centre of love of all lovely things, and of creative action for the spirit.
Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself
We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values.
The greatest voice of all time.
Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.
So far the biggest accomplishment I give myself is getting the silver in the Olympic Trials. Even though it's kind of a defeat. Not too many people make it that far. I do see it as an accomplishment and one of my greatest.
The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
I interviewed one of the most powerful lawyers in the world and he told me, "At the time, it was the worst thing in the world not to be able to get a job at a fancy law firm, but it's the greatest thing that ever happened in my life. " It was a humble acknowledgment of how forces much larger than himself shaped his career. I really wanted to bring that point home.
It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.
America is the greatest sin against God.
Steven's Spielberg is one of the most visually talented and character-oriented directors I've ever worked with. And I learn from him every time I watch one of his movies. Good or bad - and he has made some awful movies - they're never uninteresting. He's made four or five of the greatest movies of all time. Perfect movies, like E. T. or Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan.
If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.
In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . . '
