“I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!”
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“Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!”
“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”
“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.”
“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.”
“Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.”
“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.”
“I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.”
“I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.”
“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.”
“No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.”
“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.”
“The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.”
“There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.”
“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.”
“My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.”
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.”
“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.”
“I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.”
“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.”
“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”
“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.”
“Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.”