James Anthony Froude Quotes

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

James Anthony Froude

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• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

• I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• I always knew I was destined for greatness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Always
  • Greatness
  • Destined

• I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Broken
  • Laws
  • United States

• Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Child
  • Laws
  • Guns

• The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Stage
  • Laws
  • Both

• Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Country
  • American
  • America

• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Greatness
  • Animals

• Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Today
  • Everyday
  • Greatness

• In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • House
  • Laws
  • Obey

• Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Greatness
  • Run
  • Follow

• Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Will
  • Laws

• The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Business
  • American
  • America

• Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Made
  • Greatness
  • Had

• Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Nature
  • Period
  • Laws

• Do not the brave know The greatness of their progeny? A country present will meet thee, And while it may possibly be yours, Three hundred thousand years save one, A short hour of the day of everlasting life.

  

  Taliesin
  • Life
  • Country
  • May

• Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • World
  • Different
  • American

• There aren't many people in the world that are as respected and loved when it comes to entertainment and as big as Pac. But the greatness that I adore the most is him as a man.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Greatness

• Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

  

  Plato
  • Spirit
  • Laws
  • Good Men

• It's hard to explain to people how, if you're really capable of providing the right professional work environment, it allows you to get more personal.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • People
  • Work
  • Environment

• Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

  

  Aristotle
  • War
  • Peace
  • Actions

• True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Greatness
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