Greatness Quotes - Page 2

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Happy, Done

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Criticism, Finals

  "A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings".

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• Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.

  Henri Nouwen

  Strong, Real, Humility

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• Inspire yourself to be great. Being good isn't good enough.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneur

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

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering...wh o see the greatness in you!

  Wayne Dyer

  People, Empowering, Proximity

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• The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.

  Guy Finley

  Character, Two, Starting Over

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [158]

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

  Muhammad Ali

  Positive, Motivational Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Dec 08, 2010

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• If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Men, Forget

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• Greatness breaks laws.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Law, Break

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• Creativity means believing you have greatness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Creativity, Mean

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Humorous, Standing

  Woody Allen (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”

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• Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

  Jim Rohn

  Responsibility, Sacrifice, Joy

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 06, 2015

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• Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Dream, Age, Youth

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• How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Mind, Tests

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• The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, World, Troublesome

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.115

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• All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

  Alexis Carrel

  Men, Intuition, Needs

  "Nava-Vēda: God and Man" by M. B. Raja Rao, p. 229, 1968.

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• Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mean, Goodness, Ends

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1867). “The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition”, p.348

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