Greatness Quotes
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I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or higher than God himself?
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.
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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.
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It is usually the roughest road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.
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If you say that you're a king, queen, god or goddess and you recognize that you're from ancestral greatness, you have to start living up to that. It's really just that simple.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.
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True artists pursue greatness in craft in order to give the Lord the best fruit of the talent He has given them, not to build themselves up. They understand that true greatness is found in the heart of the servant.
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I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.
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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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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.
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Tap into that one fear that drives greatness - the fear of regret.
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A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.
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Believe in your own potential for greatness.
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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.
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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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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.
