Greatness Quotes
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It is empty to plead that the solution to the dilemmas of the present rests on the hands of the clock. The solution is in our hands. Unless we are willing to yield up our destiny of greatness among the civilizations of history, Americans - white and Negro together - must be about the business of resolving the challenge which confronts us now.
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No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.
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Chasing greatness - it's what I'm about.
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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 greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.
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America's greatness has always been demonstrated by our moral leadership.
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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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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
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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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The weak, when they have authority, surround themselves with the weak. It is, indeed, a vice of rulers that men who have exceptional ability and worth are offensive to them, since they whose greatness is due to their position find it difficult to love those whom inner power makes great.
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If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?
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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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True greatness isn't so much what you do as who you are.
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.
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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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Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.
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But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.
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This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
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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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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
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It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.
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Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
