Greatness Quotes
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
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I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.
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He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.
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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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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
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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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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.
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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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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.
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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness...
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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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There is nothing as special as watching greatness.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership
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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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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, 'It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.'
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The trouble with these Nazis is that they have no self-critical faculty, so in their efforts to achieve greatness, they achieve nothing but a parody of greatness. Caesar conquered nations, took their leaders captive, picked their brains, and so enriched his empire. Hitler will burn down nations, torture their leaders to death, and destroy the world.
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It is usually the roughest road that leads to the heights of greatness.
