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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.
There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor.
Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.
You have GREATNESS within you, and responsibility to manifest that greatness!
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.
The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.
Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?
Inspiration doesn't respond to meeting requests. You can't schedule greatness.
I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.
When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.
There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.
O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.
He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness
The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.
What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.
Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.
At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.
The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
Greatness in the mat is achieved through training that make you push to survive.
In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Until your dream dominates your mindset, you'll never wake up to your greatness.
Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.
Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
We can either build on the greatness of America or we can fade off into history.