Greatness Quotes
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
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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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Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.
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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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Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.
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Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.
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I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.
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There is nothing as special as watching greatness.
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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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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none
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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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A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence.
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Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
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A person's greatness is that which makes him/her equal to others
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
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Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.
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Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race.
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The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.
