Greatness Quotes
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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.
Stephen Covey
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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship.
Walter Russell
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Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.
Seneca the Younger
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If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
Stephen Covey
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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.
Bill Kristol
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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.
Jason Mraz
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He is not great who is not greatly good.
William Shakespeare
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Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
William Wordsworth
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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.
Beryl Markham
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Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.
Garrison Wynn
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For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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I'm sure you know a lot of people who were born into privilege and amounted to absolutely nothing. We all have greatness within us. So it is really important for everyone to figure out what God put us on Earth to do, and steer clear of the seven pervasive lies that often blindside people.
Farrah Gray
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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.
Nicholas of Cusa
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Greatness comes with discipline.
Erwin McManus
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
Lois McMaster
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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Publilius Syrus
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Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.
Cathy Freeman
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Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.
Brian Tracy
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
William Hazlitt
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When I started my podcast, 'The School of Greatness,' one of the top three people I wanted to get on the show was Tony Robbins.
Lewis Howes
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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.
Minoru Yamasaki
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Believe in your own potential for greatness.
Evan Tanner
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
Henry Ward Beecher