Greatness Quotes
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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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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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Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.
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It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All that can here be affirmed is that what the religion of those two men lacked in theological details it made up in greatness. Their minds were born with a love of great principles... There are few instances in which a mind great enough to reach great principles in politics has been satisfied with a fanatical religion... It must not be asked for Washington and Lincoln that, having reached greatness in political principles, they should have loved littleness in piety.
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What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.
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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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It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable,", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'élever", Fr.) outwardly above others, or to want or wish to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("suppléer", Fr.) in that way (.... in French "par là", Fr.) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.
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Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.
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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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If an immigrant comes here, and they're willing to create jobs, and they're willing to contribute to our economy, we have to make it easier for the kinds of immigrants we want, because that is the past of America; that's our greatness, and that will continue to be our greatness in the future.
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America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.
Charles B. Rangel -
True greatness isn't so much what you do as who you are.
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O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.
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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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The key that unlocks your greatness is deliberate, disciplined and consistent effort.
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Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.
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The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
