“True greatness comes not by favoritism, but by fitness.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Drum Major Instinct (1968)
“True greatness comes not by favoritism, but by fitness.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Drum Major Instinct (1968)
““I don’t know” is my favorite position.”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“But he would “stay the course” — it was his favorite motto.”
Thomas Mann book Death in Venice
The disposition of the main character "Gustav Aschenbach", Ch. 2, as translated by David Luke
Death in Venice (1912)
“Every physician almost hath his favorite disease.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) English novelist and dramatist
Book II, Ch. 9
The History of Tom Jones (1749)
“Parents probably don’t know that they are playing favorites even when they are doing it.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Time for the Stars
Source: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 5, “The Party of the Second Part” (p. 54)
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)