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Greatness Quotes
"The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country."
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"If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan."
55
"True greatness consists in being great in little things."
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"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."
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"To be great, practice simplicity and express humility."
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"We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself."
48
"I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness."
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"It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves."
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"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
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"Greatness is achieved not by the absence of difficulties but by the courage to conquer them."
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"No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness."
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"In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air."
42
"Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable."
41
"It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully."
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"The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small."
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"Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none."
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"Great people only think of great things."
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"The only greatness for man is immortality."
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
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"True greatness demands humility, the journey draws it from your struggling soul."
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"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."
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"The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."
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"Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends."
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"Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar."
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"Each person was meant to blossom into their own unique signature of greatness."
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"Great men of old and of today never considered themselves only human, they also considered themselves gods. And god! See what hat great achievement have they realized!"
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"The measure of greatness is in humility, simplicity, and in kindness."
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"If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory, then become the wealthiest person on earth, in terms of courage, confidence and reasoning."
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"To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which in the end is the greatest cost of all."
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"Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon, it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged."
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