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The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you read more
The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.
So let his name through Europe ring!
A man of mean estate,
Who dies as firm as read more
So let his name through Europe ring!
A man of mean estate,
Who dies as firm as Sparta's king,
Because his soul was great.
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops read more
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of read more
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his mind.
- William Hazlitt,
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.