Quotes: greatness
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A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
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Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
Source: Twelfth Night (1601)
