Greatness Quotes
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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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Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.
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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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The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
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Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.
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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 best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
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Tap into that one fear that drives greatness - the fear of regret.
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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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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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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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A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all 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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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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Greatness is a lot of small things done well.
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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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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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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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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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Be not afraid of greatness.
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Some people are destined for greatness; others fall up a hill to get there.
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Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.
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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.
