Greatness Quotes
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Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.
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So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.
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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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Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.
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Your greatness is measured by your kindness.
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Believe in your own potential for greatness.
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness...
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Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
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Inaugural speeches are supposed to be huge and stirring. Presidents haul our heroes onstage, from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. George W. Bush brought the Liberty Bell. They use history to make greatness and achievements seem like something you can just take down from the shelf.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.
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True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.
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The greatest lesson I've learned is that you have to fight and continue to strive for greatness, as nothing great ever comes easily.
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Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
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Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
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The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
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A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.
