Greatness Quotes
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We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.
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To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
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In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.
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Regardless of the method, the act of worship must be in spirit and truth-from our rational consciousness and consistent with the rest of our lives (see John 4:24). We don't have to be great singers or musicians to worship God. But we do need to be in a personal relationship with Him and live with the truth of His greatness reflecting through all we are becoming and all we do.
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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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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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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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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.
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You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.
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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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We offend God because we do not know His greatness.
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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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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.
