The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.
Martina Navratilova

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
Marshall McLuhan

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach

'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties.
Rod Steiger

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
Elihu Root

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
Anna Letitia Barbauld

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.
Anthony Quinn

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
Lionel Trilling

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler

The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.
Salmon P. Chase

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
B. H. Liddell Hart

The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
Alex Lifeson

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.
Scott Stapp

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Philip James Bailey

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
Henry Fielding

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
David Antin

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
Daniel Day-Lewis

There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years.
Ryne Sandberg