Quotes about greatness
greatness safety steps
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap? Ralph Waldo Emerson
greatness doors unhappy
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
greatness mosaics diverse
The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse. Sheila Jackson Lee
greatness views mind
Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way. Natalie Goldberg
greatness proust fame
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness. John Kenneth Galbraith
greatness obsession turning-30
Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30. John Cusack
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I don't feel that any of my greatness has been covered over. Linda Hamilton
greatness men names
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
greatness simplicity christ
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
greatness men humanity
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.
greatness obscurity lines
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small. Peabo Bryson
greatness thinking forever
I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper. Pierre Trudeau
greatness trying world
Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness. Rabindranath Tagore
greatness certain source
Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released. Ralph Steadman
greatness hands instruments
Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God. Radhanath Swami
greatness class skulls
The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!
greatness men dresses
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
greatness luxury perception
The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.
greatness men want
A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
greatness men unique
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
greatness men soul
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
greatness and-love levity
Let him be great, and love shall follow him.
greatness hands share
There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.
greatness thinking people
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
greatness men long
Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
greatness makeup expression
Beauty without expression is boring.
greatness special-you imagine
You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine. Les Brown
greatness people great-people
Doing great requires that we become great people, and all of us can become great people.
greatness special-you character-building
You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!
greatness punishment citizens
The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him. Thomas Aquinas
greatness humans human-beings
The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.
greatness democracy ears
Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness. Leo Strauss