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There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

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

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

You need a strong, tough leader to restore America's greatness. This is the best person to do that.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness

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

What you subconsciously want, you will get. And what you subconsciously do not want, you will avoid.

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

When everyone is buying into a system and puts their ego to the side, that's when greatness happens.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.

Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

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

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

Be ready and willing to be a beginner every morning. That's how you grow and step into your greatness

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

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

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