Behdad Sami Quotes

Appreciate your flaws to reach the potential of your greatness.

Behdad Sami

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• We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • American
  • History
  • Black

• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Country
  • Man

• When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Different
  • Success
  • Study

• Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Moments
  • Never
  • Greatness

• Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • History
  • True
  • Soul

• Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Greatness
  • Drinking
  • Vices

• You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Appreciate
  • Everyone
  • Cloud

• If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Pain
  • Ready
  • Reach

• The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • People
  • World
  • Appreciate

• 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

• Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Man
  • Human
  • Greatness

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Greatness
  • Animals

• Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Greatness
  • Run
  • Follow

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

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Business
  • American
  • America

• That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

  

  Vanity
  • People
  • World
  • Greatness

• Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Humanity
  • Revolution
  • Ignorance

• Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • World
  • Great
  • American

• 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

• I'm just thrilled for so many people. Our players, mostly, but the people in our organization - Rick Welts, Joe Lacob and Peter Guber and the whole group. It's just a phenomenal group of people. I think as a coach you just appreciate kind of the big picture a little bit more.

  

  Steve Kerr
  • People
  • Kind
  • Player

• Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.

  

  Elizabeth Fry
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not to confine themselves to seeking piecemeal improvements in the way things are done, but to present fundamental challenges in the name of reason to the current way of doing things and to the avowed or hidden assumptions on which it rests.

  

  Edward Hallett Carr
  • History
  • Reason
  • Challenges

• Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Faith

• I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

  

  George Foreman
  • Given
  • Statements
  • Demographics

• Appreciate your flaws to reach the potential of your greatness.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Greatness
  • Appreciate
  • Reach