"You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine."
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"You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility."
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"Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera."
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"Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!"
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"The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity"
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"You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class. With George Bush, that charge would never stick."
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"I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done."
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"The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism."
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"I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things."
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"But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery."
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"[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity."
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"There is often with restaurant reviews in particular, I think, this kind of impulse to be deferential and bow down to the greatness of the restaurant and the greatness of the chef, and then with great regret to say, "And yet, all is not as it should be in the kingdom," and I didn't want to do any of that."
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"The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company."
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"None think the great unhappy, but the great."
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"Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your own life are anchored in greatness, in holiness, in worth, in grace, in joy, in excitement -in internal certainties rather than external circumstances. Because that belief? That's where you're heading, no matter what it may look like on the outside."
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"And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?"
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"Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes."
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"Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses."
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"Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness."
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"Great individuals make great successes out of failure."
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