Greatness Quotes
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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 have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.
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I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history.
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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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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
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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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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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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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Scripture tells us that 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' Captain Humayun Khan of the United States Army showed in his final moments that he was filled and motivated by this love. His name will live forever in American memory, as an example of true American greatness.
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The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.
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I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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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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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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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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The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
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It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.
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Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.
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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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If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
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Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
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Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
