Beverly Jenkins Quotes

Because we can't tell others about our accomplishments if we don't know them ourselves.

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• And... as long as they need me, it's easier to forget that I am alone.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Long
  • Needs
  • Forget

• No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Simplicity
  • Weapons
  • Brevity

• When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.

  

  Alan Loy McGinnis
  • Thanks
  • Follow
  • Comes

• Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Boy
  • Accomplishments

• I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Society
  • Tennis
  • Selfish

• It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Failure
  • Belief

• Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

  

  John Calvin
  • Way
  • Despair
  • The Lord

• I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.

  

  Bill Reid
  • Art
  • Attention
  • Accomplishments

• God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • Celebrate
  • Titles

• Conflict is necessary for growth. But too often conflict becomes a haven for the soul. Until one day, the soul can no longer free itself. In real growth the soul learns to fly rather than having the ego inflated with praise from accomplishments as if it were a balloon. Only because it buys time, do we develop a strong and protective ego. This is the early stage in the soul’s evolution, until such time when the soul hatches out of its shell, which is the ego, into a new world in which there is incomparable beauty.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Soul
  • Growth
  • Ego

• Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Long

• Love is the selfishness of two persons.

  

  Antoine de la Sale
  • Love
  • Two
  • Selfishness

• You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

  

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • People
  • Should
  • Approach

• She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Great
  • Trying
  • She

• Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Dying

• Because we can't tell others about our accomplishments if we don't know them ourselves.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Accomplishments