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May you find great value in these Greatness quotes and sayings.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
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As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor
The greatness of a nation can be judged
by the way its animals are treated.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future,
it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world
that the door to reality is no-mind.
- Osho
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
"Fair" is not a useful concept.
Life is not "fair."
You can't make life "fair."
You can get angry.
You can complain about life not being "fair."
You can attempt revenge - perhaps violently.
You can inflict great suffering upon yourself
in the name of life being "unfair."
And Life is still not "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Those who are highly evolved,
maintain an undiscriminating perception.
Seeing everything, labeling nothing,
they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.
Thus they are supported by it.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
- Alexander the Great
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's one of life's great paradoxes ...
Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us
is critical to happiness.
Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.
The best we can do in the face of this paradox
is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat
and ready to play again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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