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It is not truth that makes man great; but man that makes truth great.

Confucius

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Blaise Pascal

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

John Steinbeck

It is not enough to be very good if you have the ability to be great.

Alberta Lee Cox

Discover the traits that makes you great and develop those to become all you can be.

Demond Jackson

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

The brain is one truly amazing organ, and the power it wields can propel you to greatness only if you put in the necessary effort.

Annabelle Higgins

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

George Bernard Shaw

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Judy Garland

To achieve great things we must live as if we were never going to die.

Marquis de Vauvenargues

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Emily P. Bissell

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard

Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.

Ray A. Davis

Greatness in leadership involves the ability to inspire and motivate large numbers of people.

Jason Navallo

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We become what we expect to become. Greatness can be achieved only if we expect it from ourselves and from others!

James Ericson

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher that you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Johns Hopkins

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Charles Reed

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great people are those who can make others feel that they, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

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To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency.

Dwayne Johnson

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

Winston S. Churchill

No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.

Roy T. Bennett

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

Zadok Rabinwitz

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

George Chapman

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you cannot do great things; do small things in a great way.

J.F. Clarke

Greatness is always improbably. Petty and dull--that is probable.

Tao Te Ching

God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.

John Baptiste Gressett

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart Udall
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.
The words you speak can uplift and inspire people to love, laugh and achieve great things. Your words can also instill a sense of fear, hatred, and even hopelessness in the person who is on the receiving end.
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

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