Famous Greatness Quotes - Famous Quotes about Greatness
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
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All great achievements require time.
- Maya Angelou
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
- Albert Camus
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
- Elizabeth Bowen
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
- Alfred Victor Vigny
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I can do small things in a great way.
- James Freeman Clarke
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I never wanted to be famous; I only wanted to be great.
- Ray Charles
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I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.
- Jimi Hendrix
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Let it never be forgotten that glamour is not greatness; applause is not fame; prominence is not eminence. The person of the hour is not apt to be the person of the ages. It is what the unimportant do that really counts and determines the course of history. The world would soon die but for the fidelity, loyalty, and consecration of those whose names are unhonored and unsung.
- John R. Sizoo
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Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
- Marguerite Gardiner Blessington
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One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.
- Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
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So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
- Mary Kay Ash
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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Strong convictions precede great actions.
- James Freeman Clarke
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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
- Michelangelo
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
- Otto von Bismarck
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To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
- Leonard Bernstein
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in this world has been accomplished without passion.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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