Greatness Quotes
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
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you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all
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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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It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.
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The greatest lesson I've learned is that you have to fight and continue to strive for greatness, as nothing great ever comes easily.
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Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they're greatness as it were improves you.
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They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
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Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.
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Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
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The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
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It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it and I don't think it means too much. I'm going for greatness.
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There's still time for greatness.
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What positive things have you said to yourself today? Acknowledge your greatness.
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Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.
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Some people are destined for greatness; others fall up a hill to get there.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
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The potential for greatness lives within us all.
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Greatness follows those who lead the way.
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Every night at dinner, my father would say something about the greatness of the United States - and tell us to make sure the government is there for the next people who come along and need it.
