Greatness Quotes - Page 9

• A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Touching, Doe

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• Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

  Aron Ralston

  Inspirational, Adversity, Blessing

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• All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed

  Pat Cash

  Inspirational, Success, Passion

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• Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The family that prays together stays together.'

  Thomas S. Monson

  Family, Happiness, Happy

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• The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is.

  R. G. LeTourneau

  Accomplishment, Achievement, Joy

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• The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.

  Mother Teresa

  Generosity, Giving, Catholic

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• Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Power, Flames, America

  Misattributed to Tocqueville. "The Tocqueville Fraud" by John Pitney, www.weeklystandard.com. November 12, 1995.

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• He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest

  E. Urner Goodman

  Good Man, Community Service, Service And Sacrifice

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• Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

  Dorothy Height

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Perseverance

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• Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Journey, Excellence

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 02, 2016

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• Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.

  Robin Sharma

  Consistency, Fundamentals

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.12, Jaico Publishing House

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• The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.

  Israel Meir Kagan

  Men, Greater, Seems

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• Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

  Pablo Picasso

  Goya, Clown, Painter

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• The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

  Alexander Smith

  Desert, World

  Alexander Smith (1854). “Poems”, p.120

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• The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Temptation, Fearless

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• The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

  Charles Rollin

  Tree, Reason, Thunder

  Charles Rollin (1851). “The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians”, p.285

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• The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Art, Unique, Literature

  "Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks …About Everything". Interview with Richard Burgin, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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• Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

  John F. Kennedy

  Being Strong, Men, Deeds

  "Profiles In Courage".

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• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

  William C. Bryant

  Strength, Children, Adversity

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• 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.

  Sherman Glenn Finesilver

  Confusion, Confusing, Spirit

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• False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Political, Politics, Faces

  "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

  William Shakespeare

  Glory, Touched, Highest

  1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

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• What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Accomplishment, Starting

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• You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Success, Business

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