#greatness

Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus; and we petty men walk under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#greatness #leadership #leadership

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#nature #prejudice #nature

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#excellence #greatness #individuality #individuality

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ↗

— Aristotle

#bears #beautiful #becomes #calamities #cheerfulness

There is nothing as special as watching greatness. ↗

— Sean Astin

#nothing #special #watching

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. ↗

— Charles Kendall Adams

#amount #attains #determines #distinction #doing

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#america #been #certain #commitment #commitments

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#back #best #fear #get #grateful