Greatness Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Lying, Humility, Knowledge And Wisdom

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• By only becoming aware of Krishna's greatness we can become aware of our minuteness. That's the way to become Humble.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Humility, Humble, Way

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• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Heaven, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson's Journals, December 20, 1822.

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• Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

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• Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.

  Brian Tracy

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Expression

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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• To respond is positive, to react is negative.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Attitude, Negative

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• Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.

  Seth Godin

  Positive, Attitude, Thinking

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• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice ... She's always encouraged me, and she's still that person who, when things look dire, lifts me up and reminds me of who I am and that we all have a capacity for greatness.

  Sheryl Crow

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humble, Humility, Realizing

  "Interior Castle" by Teresa of Avila, (Ch. 2), as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman, 1577.

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• Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

  Pindar

  Humility, Humble, Pride

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• There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you fail, which we all must, everything you do in your work is somehow connected with your attitude toward life, your deepest secret feelings.

  Rex Harrison

  Art, Attitude, Struggle

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest.

  Robert Henry Thurston

  Hard Work, Science, Discovery

  "The Growth of the Steam Engine". Popular Science, Volume 12, No. 1, p. 11, November 1877.

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• [Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process are more important to him than the completion. The creative process gives him more pleasure than the yield, the finished piece. Success is immaterial. "Doing it was wonderful." His work is nearly always uneconomical, with the wastefulness of the rich.

  Richard Willstatter

  Success, Lying, Hard Work

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• How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No great man has ever wise-cracked his way to greatness. Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself. No one can multiply himself by himself. He must first divide himself and give himself to the service of all, thus placing himself within all others through acts of thoughtfulness and service.

  Walter Russell

  Wise, Inspiration, Humility

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• Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

  Tryon Edwards

  Appreciation, Art, Book

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.91, Ravenio Books

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