"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward."
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"My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it"
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"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
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"You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about."
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"When your silent, people recognize your greatness."
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"The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship."
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"Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting."
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"The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch."
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"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go."
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"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."
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"A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself."
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"A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action."
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"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."
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"A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips."
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"Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process."
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"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."
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"Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."
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"It's not bragging if you can back it up."
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"A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing."
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"Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal."
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