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Life Quotes... Greatness & Great Things
“There are countless ways of achieving
greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be
built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to
excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.”
Buck Rodgers
“The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to
suspect inferiority in others.”
Cicero
“Nothing grows well in the shade of a big
tree.”
Constantin Brancusi
“Nothing great in the world has ever been
accomplished without passion.”
G. W. F. Hegel
“They're only truly great who are truly
good.”
George Chapman
“The first test of a truly great man is his
humility.”
John Ruskin
“It is better to deserve honors and not have
them than to have them and not deserve them.”
Mark Twain
“Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to
excite love, interest, and admiration, and the outward proof of
possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and
admiration.”
Matthew Arnold
“There are no great things, only small things
with great love. Happy are those.”
Mother Theresa
“To be a great champion you must believe you
are the best. If you're
not, pretend you are.”
Muhammad Ali
“Great men are meteors designed to burn so that
the earth may be lighted.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The greatest thing a man can do in this world
is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him.
This is success, and there is no other.”
Orison Swett Marden
“Nothing great was ever achieved without
enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No great man ever complains of want of
opportunity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever
achieve greatly.”
Robert F. Kennedy
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“A great man shows his greatness by the way he
treats little men.”
Thomas Carlyle
“There is no such thing as a little country.
The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number
than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.”
Victor Hugo
“No man is truly great who is great only in his
own lifetime. The test of
greatness is the page of history.”
William Hazlitt
“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out
hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when
all have lost it - who can say this is not greatness?”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“…be not afraid of greatness: some are born
great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon
them.”
William Shakespeare
“One does not become great by claiming greatness.”
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