Greatness Quotes - Page 32

• The path to greatness is along with others.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Teamwork, Team Building, Working Together

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.61, Shambhala Publications

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• When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Erosion, Effort

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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  The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

  Coretta Scott King

  Teamwork, Compassion, Community

  Coretta Scott King's address at Georgia State University, February 15, 2000.

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• Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

  Leigh Hunt

  Acceptance, Sacrifice, Self

  "Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift".

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• Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

  Tim Blixseth

  Motivational, Ideas, Goal

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• Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Adversity, Opportunity, Giving

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• Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

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

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• When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Way

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.28, Thomas Nelson

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• Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of reasoning of the time when it was written; and each chief step in science has been a lesson in logic.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Art, Hard Work, Science

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.111, Indiana University Press

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• We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country. ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must keep in mind all that may work towards the glory of his country. In every great scientist will be found a great patriot.

  Louis Pasteur

  Country, Hard Work, Science

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• [Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying first to find whether they are not perhaps wrong. They work with bold conjectures and severe attempts at refuting their own conjectures.

  Karl Popper

  Hard Work, Science, Men

  Sir Karl Raimund Popper, Karl Raimund Popper (1974). “The Philosophy of Karl Popper”

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• [Humility is:] Greatness in plain clothes

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Humility, Clothes

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• The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Believe, Humility, Humble

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• Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

  Vince Lombardi

  Humility, Sacrifice, Dedication

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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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