Greatness Quotes
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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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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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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.
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He is not great who is not greatly good.
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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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The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a church in which the purest and noblest worship of God was observed. His occupation has become associated in our minds with the integrity of the life he lived. In Lincoln there was always some quality that fastened him to the people and taught their to keep time to the music of his heart.
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Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership
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The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.
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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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I don't need to be in a comfortable spot to achieve greatness. I fight for it no matter what.
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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.
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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.
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There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you fail, which we all must, everything you do in your work is somehow connected with your attitude toward life, your deepest secret feelings.
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I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.
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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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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.
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Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.
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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
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The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
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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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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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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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Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness.
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To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.
