Quotes by 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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
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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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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
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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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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
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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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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
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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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