"Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it."

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"Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it."

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"I cannot create greatness as I can only create weak facsimiles. And in sorting through the innumerable facsimiles around me, I will only happen upon true greatness when I happen upon the true God."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"The excitement of opportunity and challenge inspires us to push for greatness."

Lorii Myers, Canadian Author

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"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

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"Greatness is an opiate."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Great men don't strive for greatness, theysimply do great works."

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"We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness."

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"I cannot create greatness as I can only create weak facsimiles. And in sorting through the innumerable facsimiles around me, I will only happen upon true greatness when I happen upon the true God."

"Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends."

"In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you."

"He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama."

"The excitement of opportunity and challenge inspires us to push for greatness."

"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

"You have All it takes to be Great, See the unseen, Give the Good in your hand now to Activate that Great Grace for Greatness."

"Greatness is an opiate."

"Great men don't strive for greatness, theysimply do great works."

"We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness."

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"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."

"Do not try to be humble: learn humility."

"Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge."

"Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it."

"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."

"The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real."

"Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow."