Life Quotes... Greatness & Great Things

“There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.”
                                                Buck Rodgers

“The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.”
                                                Cicero

“Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.”
                                                Constantin Brancusi

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
                                                G. W. F. Hegel

“They're only truly great who are truly good.”
                                                George Chapman

“The first test of a truly great man is his humility.”
                                                John Ruskin

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
                                                Mark Twain

“Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration, and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.”
                                                Matthew Arnold

“There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.”
                                                Mother Theresa

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best.  If you're not, pretend you are.”
                                                Muhammad Ali

“Great men are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.”
                                                Napoleon Bonaparte

“The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”
                                                Orison Swett Marden

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
                                                Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
                                                Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
                                                Robert F. Kennedy

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
                                                Sir Winston Churchill

“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”
                                                Thomas Carlyle

“There is no such thing as a little country.  The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.”
                                                Victor Hugo

“No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime.  The test of greatness is the page of history.”
                                                William Hazlitt

“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it - who can say this is not greatness?”
                                                William Makepeace Thackeray

“…be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
                                                William Shakespeare

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