Mark Twain
“Be good and you will be lonely”
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William Shakespeare
“He is not great who is not greatly good.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be simple is to be great”
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Goethe
“Everything great and intelligent is in the minority”
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Zadok Rabinwitz
“A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
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Dolly Parton
“It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”
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Calvin Coolidge
“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
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Mario Puzo
“Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”
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Ralpho Waldo Emerson
"Every great man is unique."
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Winston Churchill
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
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Hitopadesa
"Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
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Benjamin Disreali
"Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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Lou Holtz
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." Lou Holtz
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest man in history was the poorest”
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Mencius
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. "
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Brian Tracy
"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."
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Winston Churchill
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
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John F. Kennedy
"Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage."
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Hebbel
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.”
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Harry Gray
“No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.”
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Alfred Victor Vigny
“Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.”
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Philip Guedalla
“Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success”
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Cher
“Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”
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Eleanor Roosevelt
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
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Thomas Carlyle
"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
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Horace Mann
"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
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Judy Garland
“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
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Elbert Hubbard
“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.”
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Helen Keller
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble”
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Orison Swett Marden
“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.”
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Charles Caleb Colton
“In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.”
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William Allen White
“Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.”
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Martina Navratilova
“The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.”
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Mark Twain
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
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Steve Maraboli
“Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.”
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Henry David Thoreau
"Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well."
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Martin Luther King Jr.
“Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.”
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Ray Davis
“Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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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Martin Luther King Jr.
"He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'"
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Beryl Markham
“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”
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William F. Halsey
"There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet."
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William Shakespeare
"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
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Marya Mannes
"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."
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Steve Maraboli
“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it fearlessly.”
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Harry S. Truman
"Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great."
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Billy Mills
"The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself."
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Lawrence D. Bell
"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."
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Sherman Finesilver
"Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness…For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs."
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Froude
"True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind."
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Abraham Lincoln
"…I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
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John Ruskin
"Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."
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Buck Rodgers
“There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
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Henry Eyring
"Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men. The people who can catch hold of men’s minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history…”
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John F. Kennedy
"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."
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John Ruskin
“I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.”
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