Greatness Quotes
2048 Greatness quotes by 1107 unique authors
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the…
— Friedrich Schiller
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
— Robert H. Schuller
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
— E F Schumacher
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
— Walter Scott
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The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness…
— Will Self
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
— Hans Selye
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
— William Shakespeare
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life…
— William Shakespeare
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
— William Shakespeare
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
— George Bernard Shaw
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When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio…
— Rob Sheffield
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
— Susan Sontag
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If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our…
— Theodore C. Sorensen
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There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
— Roger Staubach
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
— Jonathan Swift
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
— Tecumseh
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Things do not change; we change.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
— Alvin Toffler
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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
— Paul Tournier
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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
— Harry S. Truman
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