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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reporters used to be blue-collar at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.
Howie Carr
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw
The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.
Steve Maraboli
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
Orson Scott Card
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle
We do not display greatness by going to one extreme, but in touching both at once, and filling all the intervening space. But perhaps this is only a sudden movement of the soul from one to the other extreme, and in fact it is ever at one point only, as in the case of a firebrand.
Blaise Pascal
He is not great who is not greatly good.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
Emerson said that music helps people to find the greatness in their souls. The same can be said about any form of art.
Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.
Oscar Wilde
Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.
You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it fearlessly.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo
