Greatness Quotes
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How true it is that some have greatness thrust upon them! - and you may be quite sure that it was none of my seeking.
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Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.
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You are watching what greatness is all about.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
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Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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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Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
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No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.
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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
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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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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
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There's no way to convince people of your greatness. Whatever it is that you want to be, you have to know it inside and knife-fight your way to your dream.
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Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.
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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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Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.
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In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.
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By only becoming aware of Krishna's greatness we can become aware of our minuteness. That's the way to become Humble.
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If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!
