If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully. — Anna Howard Shaw

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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day. ― C.S. Lewis

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Seeing five teams within five points in Serie A is a great thing. - Luca Toni

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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.- Zig Ziglar

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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. – Martha Graham

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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. – Leo Burnett

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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God. ― Soren A. Kierkegaard

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Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too. —Mark Twain

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