Greatness Quotes - Page 39

• It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.

  Edward Gardner

  Behinds

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• Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

  Harry Lloyd

  Success, Priorities In Life, Forget

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• Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

  Russell Conwell

  Mean, Office, Accomplishment

  Russell Conwell (2013). “Acres of Diamonds: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.38, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Tattoo, Kindness, Soul

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• We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Basketball, Deeds

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• To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Leadership, Solitude, Feels

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• Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

  David Brainerd

  Sensual, Riches, Flow

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.122

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• Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

  H. W. Janson

  Art, Crafts, Yardsticks

  "History of Art".

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• Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Originality, Range

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.163, U of Nebraska Press

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• Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Heart, Unique, Expression

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• Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

  Albert Camus

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

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• Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

  Eric Burns

  Inspiration, Discipline, Training

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• To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Musician, Poet, Possession

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “Essays and Studies”, p.59, Chatto & Windus

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• Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that the public will experience a catastrophic loss if he does not complete his novel. The public is just clamoring to give him his fame. From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction by

  Leonard Bishop

  Powerful, Believe, Book

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• Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.

  Charles Fenno Hoffman

  Kindness, Be Kind, Vain

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• But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.

  William Bayliss

  Giving Up, Mistake, Science

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• Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.

  Stanwood Cobb

  Inspiration, Creativity, Careers

  Stanwood Cobb (1967). “The importance of creativity”

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• None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Strength, Strong, Passion

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• I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That's real greatness!

  Ryan Hall

  Running, Real, Thinking

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• Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do.

  Percy Cerutty

  Running, Believe, Thinking

  Percy Wells Cerutty (1964). “Middle-distance running”

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• Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Life, Running, Appreciation

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

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• Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Reality

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• Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.

  Ramakrishna

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Flower

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• Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.

  James Arthur Ray

  Powerful, Passion, Flames

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• Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Love, Kindness, Soul

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