Greatness Quotes - Page 22

• My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Different, Amor, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.714, Modern Library

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• So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.

  Lady Gaga

  Broken, Trying, Periods

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Jun 07, 2010

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• We don’t exhaust the Bible even after reading it hundreds of times. Each time we read it we see it in a new light. That is the greatness of the holy scriptures. They are that way because they were created by holy prophets who experienced the truth. Each time we read these works we elevate ourselves to see a little more. (81)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Reading, Light, Holy Prophet

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Men, Giving, Selfless

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• don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

  Terry McMillan

  Sabotage, Succumbing

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• You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Men, Finding Happiness

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• In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.

  Alejo Carpentier

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Men

  Alejo Carpentier (1990). “The Kingdom of this World”, Andre Deutsch

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• Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Positivity

  Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.58, Canongate Books

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• What comes, is called.

  Ki Longfellow

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• A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.

  Ernst Junger

  Art, World, Waste

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• So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

  Voltaire

  Country, Men, Evil

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• Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Innocence, Speak

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.39, Vintage

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• The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within...could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspiration, Wind, Mind

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• Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mother, Father, Valentine

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.393, Tor Science Fiction

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• My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Love Is, Spurs

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• You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

  Sri Chinmoy

  Doe, Guarantees, Never Forget

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• It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.

  Hudson Taylor

  Inspiration, Complaining, Spirit

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• Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.

  Ayn Rand

  Knowing, Voice, Feelings

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.66, Hamilton Books

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• Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Lying, Envy

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

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• The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Ideas, Foundation

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.197, Penguin

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• We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.

  Anais Nin

  Powerful, Feelings, Tragedy

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• 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.

  Beryl Markham

  Wisdom, Perseverance, Business

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

  Beryl Markham

  Men, Arrogance, Finches

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sweet, Men, Hands

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• Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.71, Open Road Media

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