"We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great."
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"Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown."
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."
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"It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us."
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"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."
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"Greatness lives on the edge of destruction"
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"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve."
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"We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout."
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"The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God."
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"He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness."
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"The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty."
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"You only need a heart full of grace"
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"He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'"
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"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."
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"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."
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"Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals."
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"True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love."
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"You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better."
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"We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls."
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"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."
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