Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You too can buy greatness by converting your time into greatness through hard work.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you want to achieve greatness, you must believe in your dreams.
SCOTTIE SOMERS You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
LES BROWN Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in s...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Laziness is like activation energy. It's that bump that needs to be passed in order to achieve great...
ARIF MOHAMED HANIFF Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
PAUL TSONGAS Knowledge they say is power, therefore through books, you gain power, greatness and success
SUNDAY ADELAJA Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
PHILIP GUEDALLA Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success
PHILIP GUEDALLA Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
ATHENAEUS Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
ROBERT HERRICK If you will exchange your life for greatness, if you will use the currency of time to buy greatness;...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne Certain br...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me
WOODY ALLEN We are drawn to greatness because there's something about the greatness in others that speaks to us ...
DAMILOLA OLUWATOYINBO Why play small? Let your greatness be evident to all.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
ABU BAKR Life is all about chances. It’s all about these little moments that add up to greatness. And there...
T.J. KLUNE If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.
SUZY KASSEM Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
NELSON BOSWELL The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...
NELSON BOSWELL We often settle for what's available and what's available isn't always great. You are destined to ac...
FARSHAD ASL We often settle for what’s available, and what’s available isn’t always great. YOU are destine...
FARSHAD ASL You got seeds of greatness in you. Sow them and reap greatness. You will rise.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness
PHILLIP BROOKS Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-makin...
FRANK HERBERT In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve great...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact
EDMUND BURKE The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunde...
ELBERT HUBBARD Greatness should have no victims
Greatness should need no victims.
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN You are destiny for greatness!
Realise and pursue this greatness.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A tired mind equals tired results. You must rest your mind and your spirit to achieve greatness.
JOHN DI LEMME You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.
WILL ROGERS Your greatness does not lie in the chair you sit upon but on the path you tread and the people who g...
AMIT ABRAHAM You are creative beauty and utter awesomeness. You are genius manifest. You are imperfect. You are w...
SRAVANI SAHA NAKHRO Eventually our bodies grow old, no part of your body is immune to the effects of time. Focus on sign...
SRAVANI SAHA NAKHRO I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the ...
AHMET ERTEGUN I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within ou...
SONNY PERDUE All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
OPRAH WINFREY Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
MATTHEW HENRY Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.
MATTHEW HENRY God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of the...
GEORGES BERNANOS The first
sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act
great. Before y...
DALE CARNEGIE We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
JESSE JACKSON The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is...
JAMES BUCHANAN The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is...
JOHN BUCHAN The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is...
JAMES BUCHANAN when potential greatness meets with actual greatness, the future is inspired with hope.
CHIDI PROSPER AGBUGBA He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT We all have the potential to be great and the seed of greatness
SUNDAY ADELAJA In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the great...
HANS FRANK Experience is the key to greatness.
ARTHUR WILLIAMS Be a guardian to your greatness.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have
greatness thrust upon 'em.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Selflessness = Greatness
OGUNLELA OLU Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW When you are destined for greatness, it shows in everything you do.
It becomes you. Great...
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DWAYNE JOHNSON In greatness, life and death merge.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
MIKE TYSON We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of
greatness.
THOMAS CARLYLE Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTT Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
SIR WALTER SCOTT You don't need to become great 1st to step into your greatness. Have you left your comfort zone and ...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD In order to gain great Power one must have the Courage and Wisdom to obtain it.
CHARLES ROBERT SIMMONS II Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken ...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Fall in love with hard work and it will unlock all the greatness in you
SUNDAY ADELAJA Fear is only the warning of greatness, go through the fear and you will receive greatness.
ALEXANDER STRANDH Greatness knows itself.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The patriot subordinates himself to his State in order to raise it above all other States and thus, ...
RICHARD WAGNER Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
R. W. APPLE, JR. Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT Life is too short to settle down to mediocrity, when you are finally sure, that you are on the road ...
DAVID TAYLOR You carry greatness disguised in tiny potentials.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If you don’t try, you will never know what could have been. To achieve greatness, you must leave r...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you must record some greatness in your account before you leave this earth, you must value time a...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness
SIR WALTER SCOTT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT When I am around people, my heart and soul radiate with the awareness that I am in the presence of g...
KAT COLE To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.
CRISS JAMI The only hindrance to thy greatness is thyself
JOHN MICHAEL MENDEZ Greatness is inspiring others to be their best.
KEN POIROT Greatness means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone in someplace.
LOLLY DASKAL Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
ALBERT CAMUS Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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