greatness

1.

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.

- Thurgood Marshall

2.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

- Tate, Nahum

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...chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

- William Hazlitt

5.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

- Horace

6.

Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

7.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.

- William Shakespeare

9.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

- Vizinczey, Stephen

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

- Robert, Cavett

11.

Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

- Polak, Maralyn

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

13.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

- Bowen, Elizabeth

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

- Brown, Les

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The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

- Richard M. Nixon

16.

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

- Harpo Marx

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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

- Asquith, Margot

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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

- Daniel J. Boorstin