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Tag Name "Greatness" (1401)

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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
Neal Cassady
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
William Hazlitt
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The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.
Peter Drucker
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To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.
Anagarika Govinda
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No great thing is created suddenly.
Epictetus
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I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.
Mark Victor Hansen
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I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That's real greatness!
Ryan Hall
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The history of empires is the record of human misery the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
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Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.
George Stillman Hillard
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Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.
Baltasar Gracian
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[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.
Edward Gibbon
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We must dare to be great and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
William Howard Taft
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor
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It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.
Fred Hoyle
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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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.
Stephen Fry
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The universe is filled with the evidence of God's greatness. In awesome wonder we can consider the worlds He has made.
David Jeremiah
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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Jim Rohn
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those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.
Marthe Bibesco
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The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.
Garrison Keillor
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A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.
Huey Lewis
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Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Tony Robbins
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And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.
Aristotle
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