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«No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.»
Author: Harry Gray
| About:
Greatness
«Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.»
«In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.»
Author: John Webster
(Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Greatness,
Motivation
| Keywords:
blown, bubbles, in the air, pastime, pastimes, quest, wanton, wantons
«If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.»
«In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.»
«Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Greatness,
Power,
Thinking,
Thought
«I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.... I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.»
«It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
God,
Greatness
| Keywords:
frailties, frailty, One The
«I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Achievement,
Greatness,
Idealism
| Keywords:
chief, humble, Long To, tasks
«Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Achievement,
Greatness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
unawares
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