Greatness Quotes
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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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Get up my friend. If you're still breathing, there's still time enough for 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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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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For the most part, boys are very physical. It's not enough for them to be told they have what it takes and they have greatness. They have to discover for themselves. We learn by doing. The doing has to be somewhat physical.
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One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to have any regard for the proprieties that constitute not only Parliament, but its tradition. I've seen it in all its greatness. I have inwardly wept over it when it is degraded.
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The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
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All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
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Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great works inspire greatness. Mediocre or poor works inspire mediocre or poor learning. The great accomplishments of humanity are the key to quality education.
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Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
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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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Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness.
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In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
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The patriot subordinates himself to his State in order to raise it above all other States and thus, as it were, to find his personal sacrifice repaid with ample interest through the might and greatness of his fatherland.
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We offend God because we do not know His greatness.
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When they did the Olympics in Seoul - or elsewhere - didn't each host country try to show its greatness to the world viewing audience?
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift to be able to help people bring out the best qualities in them.
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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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The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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One of my favorite things about being the host of 'The School of Greatness' is that I get to learn from the best minds in the world about stuff I am fascinated by.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.