Greatness Quotes
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The noble simplicity of sentiment in McCain’s tweets is a world removed from Trump’s gaudy and boastful displays. And McCain’s demonstration of character and courage is a far more reliable guide to American greatness than the pronouncements of a president who speaks of it nonstop and embodies it not at all.
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So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh-- crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be.
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If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
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A person's greatness is that which makes him/her equal to others
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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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Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.
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Chasing greatness - it's what I'm about.
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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
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There is nothing as special as watching greatness.
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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.
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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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Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.
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In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
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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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He is not great who is not greatly good.
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I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none
