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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Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
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Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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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The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.
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I'm willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.
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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
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When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.
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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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Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
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I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.
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It is usually the roughest road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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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.
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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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The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship.
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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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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
