Greatness Quotes
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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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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
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Reach for greatness, nothing less. And make sure you have some fun along the way.
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
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Greatness follows those who lead the way.
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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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I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.
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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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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to 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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Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
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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 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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In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.
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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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Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.
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Take a look people, take a good look at greatness!
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You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?
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It's the little things that you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.
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The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.
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The potential for greatness lives within us all.
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Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
