Great Person Quotes

• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Partying for the Planet and Dancing With God (at Burning Man)" by Leah Lamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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• If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Success, Courage

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• The great person never loses a childlike spirit.

  Mencius

  Attitude, Spirit, Childlike

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• The truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.

  Paul Duffy

  Inspirational, Giving, Chance

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• Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

  Jeff Olson

  Fate, Exercise, Greatness

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.133, Greenleaf Book Group

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• The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivation, Doe

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• Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Achieve Greatness

  "Frondes Agrestes, Readings in 'Modern Painters' Chosen at Her Pleasures".

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• A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life And Love, Really Great, Feels

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• Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Character, People

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Strong, Character, Able

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1978). “The way to happiness: the eternal quest of mankind”, Prentice Hall

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• The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

  William Carlos Williams

  Business, Stress, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.188, New Directions Publishing

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• Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Courtesy, Manners, Witchery

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• I don't think there is anyone in any sport who combined the supreme talent with a great personality. He is also is one of the most wonderful people who ever walked the face of the earth. I don't think there's anybody who compares to Stan Musial on both fronts.

  Jack Buck

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

  Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm

  Age, Glory, Disappear

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• If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Girl, Hard Work

  "Dear diary: More Chuck, less gimmicks" by Bill Simmons, www.espn.com.

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• I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

  Oswald Chambers

  Self, Perspective, Devil

  "Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers".

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• Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.

  A.C. Grayling

  Philosophy, Mistake, Perspective

  A. C. Grayling (1988). “Wittgenstein”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It's not about finding great people, it's about becoming a great person

  Mark Yarnell

  Mlm, People, Marketing

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• I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

  Peter Senge

  Believe, Greatness, Organization

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• There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Way, Fighter

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• A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

  John Ruskin

  Greatness, Effort, Done

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• I'm proud of myself. I could break and go get all this plastic surgery and get my nose fixed and get lipo or do whatever, but I haven't chosen to do that because I know I'm a great person. I'm pretty damn hot, if you ask me.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Proud, Hot, Noses

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• I think LPGA players for a long time were afraid to say what's on their minds. But we're doing all the right things and there's nothing wrong with having some great personalities and rivalries and some friction. I think that's really good for the sport.

  Cristie Kerr

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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