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All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
Francis Bacon
The great figures of world history appear as the champions of God.
Leo Baeck
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
Anna Lettita Barbauld
An article of the democratic faith is that greatness lies in each person.
Bill Bradley
No great man lives in vin. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.
Chofetz Chaim
They're only truly great who are truly good.
George Chapman
The gret leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
Charles de Gaulle
The defects of great men are consolation of dunces.
Isaac D'israeli
The great always introduce us to facts; small men introduce us always to themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man and a great rogue are synonymous terms.
Henry Fielding
Few great men could pass Personnel.
Paul Goodman
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.
John F. Kennedy
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
James Russell Lowell
Greatness means: to give a direction.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Great leaders make their own rules.
Richard M. Nixon
Great minds are like eagles, and build their nest in some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A great pilot can sail even if his canvas is rent.
Seneca The Younger
There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.
Leo Tolstoy
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain, In Gay MacLaren, Morally We Roll Along, 3.5, 1938
He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.
Walt Whitman
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