Henrik Ibsen Quotes

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

Henrik Ibsen

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• I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Great
  • Sure
  • Achievements

• When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Said
  • Achievements
  • Asked

• Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Live
  • Past
  • Achievements

• And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • War
  • Science
  • Peace

• I want to be known for my athletic achievements, not my celebrity.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Celebrity
  • I Want
  • Achievements

• Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Men
  • Accomplished

• The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Things

• My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • My Life
  • Teachers
  • Transformed

• Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Lives
  • Bottom
  • Achievements

• To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Lose
  • Unconscious
  • Transformed

• The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Character
  • History
  • Beauty

• But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Civilization
  • Educated
  • Achievements

• Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Life
  • Process
  • Achievements

• We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Lose
  • Read
  • Transformed

• We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Century
  • Achievements
  • Forbearers

• Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

  

  Abraham Myerson
  • Mistakes
  • Achievements
  • Great Men

• By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

  

  Angela of Foligno
  • Lover
  • Beloved
  • Transformed

• Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Future
  • Mistakes
  • Achievements

• Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.

  

  Karl-Henrik Robert
  • Economic
  • Inspiring
  • Essentials

• I love pencil skirts, but I'm always looking for a top. And then I'm afraid, by myself, to match, to try colors. When I wear a dress, I know the top matches the bottom. So I can't make a mistake.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Afraid
  • Dress
  • Top

• I was in elementary school in Mississippi, and when Katrina hit, my mom put me in home school. So ever since sixth grade, I've been home schooled, which was interesting.

  

  Israel Broussard
  • School
  • Home
  • Katrina

• The world is full of marvels, if you're willing to travel far enough to see them.

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Travel
  • Marvels

• It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Achievements
  • Transformed