William C. DeMille Quotes
I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.
William C. DeMille
Quotes to Explore
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Kuang
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
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A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
Jack Dempsey
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
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The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.
Immanuel Kant
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Not the individual man nor a single generation by its own power can erect the bridge that leads to God. Faith is the achievement of many generations, and effort accumulated over many centuries. … There is a collective memory of God in the human spirit, and it is this memory which is the main source of our faith.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
Alain de Botton
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I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.
Mark Zupan
