Greatness Quotes - Page 30

• Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?

  Khalil Gibran

  Ocean, Needs, Beloved

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.56, Editora Dracaena

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• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Nature, Men

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• I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside them. It is just a matter of persistence--sticking to what you have envisioned until it is reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose in life. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.

  Ilchi Lee

  Believe, Persistence, Reality

  Ilchi Lee (2009). “Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back Into the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy Life”, p.105, BEST Life Media

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• I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

  Ilchi Lee

  Believe, Desire, Helpful

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Jan 28, 2014

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• The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

  Mencius

  Positive, Christmas, Wisdom

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The works of mencius”, p.198

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• To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

  Katharine Graham

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Positive, Basketball

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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  The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

  William James

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Living the Abundant Life". Book by Thomas S. Monson, 2004.

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• Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Change, Time, Memories

  1979 General election campaign speech, Bolton, 2 May.

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• The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Dark, Past

  1871 Passage to India, opening verse.

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• Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

  Charles Simmons

  Life, Time, Littles

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.315

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• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Clever

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• The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

  John Buchan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Success isn't always about 'greatness'. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Jun 8, 2012

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• Greatness is a two-faced coin - and the reverse is humility.

  Marguerite Steen

  Inspirational, Humility, Two

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• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 09, 2014

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• Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Inspirational, Birthday, Leadership

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• Greatness is won, not awarded.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Motivation, Business

  Guy Kawasaki (2011). “How to Drive Your Competition Crazy: Creating Disruption for Fun and Profit”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”

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• When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Death, Discovery

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• Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.

  Walter Dill Scott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

  Attributed in "That ye might have life" by Sterling W. Sill Benson, (p. 274), 1974.

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• The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

  Jon Meacham

  Past, History, Yesteryear

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• Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.

  Conrad Hilton

  Inspirational, Men, Mercy Of God

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