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    No great deed is done
    By falterers who ask for certainty.

    by Found in Greatness Quotes,
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If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. read more

If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.

by T. Alan Armstrong Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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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.

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He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds
us of others.

He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds
us of others.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who read more

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

by G. K. Chesterton Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is
because there is an Infinite in him, which read more

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is
because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning
he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
[Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir read more

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
[Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands
defauts.]

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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of
greatness.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of
greatness.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a read more

There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

by Buck Rodgers Found in: Greatness Quotes,
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