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Greatness Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
- Things do not change; we change.
- Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
More Greatness Quotes
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
- There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. — Abu Bakr
- No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of… — Charles Kendall Adams
- Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities,… — Amelia Barr
- We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. — Jean Baudrillard
- Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man… — Joseph Addison
- Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves… — Henry Ward Beecher
- He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. — Erma Bombeck
- The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity… — Napoleon Bonaparte