Greatness Quotes
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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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True greatness isn't so much what you do as who you are.
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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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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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Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.
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Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.
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Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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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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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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Get up my friend. If you're still breathing, there's still time enough for greatness.
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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
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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.
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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 the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I read these texts, I understood something about human greatness. What I understood from his writings was: What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being.
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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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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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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is 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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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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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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A person's greatness is that which makes him/her equal to others
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We offend God because we do not know His greatness.
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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.
