Greatness Quotes
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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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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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There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
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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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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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Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.
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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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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
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Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.
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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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Some people are destined for greatness; others fall up a hill to get there.
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.
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My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people.
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Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.
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If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
