More Great Sayings And Quotes On Greatness

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“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”
– Jim Rohn

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
– John Buchan

“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.”
– John W. Gardner

“The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.”
– Jon Meacham

“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”
– Jonathan Swift

“Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.”
– Jose Marti

“Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country‘s ruin!”
– Joseph Addison

“It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.”
– Joseph Addison

“Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.”
– Joseph Conrad

“We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.”
– Kami Garcia

“Without ambition, no goal can be met.”
– Kya Aliana

“Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I’ll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.”
– Lawrence D. Bell

“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.”
– Les Brown

“I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”
– Lou Holtz

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.”
– Maimonides

“There is always a lesson to learn; always something to think about. Even the simplest of things have the greatest teachings.”
– Mallory Terry

“Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.”
– Marianne Williamson

“But what is great can only begin great.”
– Martin Heidegger

“Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.”
– Martin Luther King Jr

“I do not admire greatness that has no substance.”
– Mary Balogh

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