Greatness Quotes
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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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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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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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When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.
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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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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
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As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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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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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
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The universe is filled with the evidence of God's greatness. In awesome wonder we can consider the worlds He has made.
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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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Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
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Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
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It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
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The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
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I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.
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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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Henry Scoop Jackson of Washington state said: Others may seek to make America great again. I seek to make America good again. For in the last analysis, our claim to greatness will be found in our goodness.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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There is a melancholy that stems from greatness
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O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.
