Greatness Quotes
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It's easy to deprecate some of the puffery and jingoism that often go with affirmations of 'American greatness.' It's also easy to confuse greatness with perfection, as if evidence of our shortcomings is proof of our mediocrity.
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Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.
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Sometimes people forget their own greatness.
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The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory.
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The capacity for tears is the last demonstration of greatness.
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Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.
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The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life.
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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
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There's a lot of real unity - and a lot fake unity, sadly. I think a lot of people are going to get an opportunity to pursue greatness and pursue careers outside of D.C. Not everybody is going to make it. I think there's a connotation that there's a lack of rappers out there.
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A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
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Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.
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When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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People talking about making America great again? America's never been great. The greatness of America is in its pursuit of greatness.
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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
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Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.
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I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture.
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One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.
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Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king
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Have you ever thought of yourself as a junior angel crowned with glory and honor? Every one of our Father in Heaven's children is great in His sight. If the Lord sees greatness in you, how then should you see yourself?
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Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled.
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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
