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Tag Name "Greatness" (1404)

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Any man of energy and initiative can get what he wants out of life. But when initiative is crippled by legislation or by a tax system which denies him the right to receive a reasonable share of his earnings, then he will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends.
Andrew Mellon
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No one ever became great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of these can compensate for the loss of vitality only research provides.
Vivian Gornick
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There's still time for greatness
Andrew Craig
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We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.
Andrew Cohen
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Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.
Andrew Carnegie
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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
Voltaire
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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux
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I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.
W. C. Fields
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Andre Gide
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If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.
W. Clement Stone
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Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The great man is too often all of a piece it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.
W. Somerset Maugham
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She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.
W. Somerset Maugham
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In greatness, life and death merge.
Dejan Stojanovic
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There is no possibility in any man that is not in every man
Wallace D. Wattles
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No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.
Wallace D. Wattles
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Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions.
Wallace D. Wattles
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Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.
Wallace D. Wattles
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Faith-not a faith in one's self or in one's own powers but faith in principle in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time. Without this faith it is not possible for any one to rise to real greatness.
Wallace D. Wattles
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Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.
Wallace D. Wattles
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