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Adversity is preparation for greatness.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life.

Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence.

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness finds authority by being under authority finds direction by laying down his plans finds vision by seeing the needs of others finds credibility by being an example finds loyalty by expressing compassion finds honor by being faithful finds greatness by being a servant

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

A great man is made so for others.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

Albert Einstein once reported, "Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds." If you want to achieve your own greatness, to climb your own mountains, you'll have to use yourself as your first and last consultant.

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

All great fighting is the same, Eragon, even as all great warriors are the same. Past a certain point, it does not matter whether you wield a sword, a claw, a tooth or a tail. It is true, you must be capable with your weapon, but anyone with the time, and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness, and it is those qualities that the best warriors share, even if, on the surface, they appear completely different.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

All great men are partially inspired.

All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God. Nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a human person...If a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb, an indirect blow is struck also at the whole moral order.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--some of the pleasure that we ourselves have taken in the stuff that we love: to get in on the game. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.