Greatness Quotes
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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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As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.
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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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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.
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In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity
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There's still time for greatness.
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True greatness does not consist so much in doing extraordinary things, as in conducting ordinary affairs with a noble demeanor and from a right motive. It is necessary and most profitable to remember the advice to Titus, "Showing all good fidelity in all things."
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I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.
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Tap into that one fear that drives greatness - the fear of regret.
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Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.
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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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Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn't allow you to achieve greatness and results. It's the day-to-day consistency of providing value to your audience.
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The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
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A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.
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Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.
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Greatness is a lot of small things done well.
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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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Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.
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Some people are destined for greatness; others fall up a hill to get there.
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Be not afraid of greatness.
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Great offices will have great talents.
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It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.
