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Quotes about greatness
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. (Bikel Theodore)
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. (Bikel Theodore)
Greatness is a spiritual condition. (Bikel Theodore)
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth --the power to love --although I have put it last, is the rarest. (Bikel Theodore)
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. (Bikel Theodore)
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. (Bikel Theodore)
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. (Bikel Theodore)
Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted. (Bikel Theodore)
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting. (Bikel Theodore)
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. (Bikel Theodore)
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. (Bikel Theodore)
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. (Bikel Theodore)
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. (Bikel Theodore)
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. (Bikel Theodore)
What millions died that Caesar might be great? (Bikel Theodore)
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. (Bikel Theodore)
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. (Bikel Theodore)
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. (Bikel Theodore)
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. (Bikel Theodore)
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. (Bikel Theodore)
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world. (Bikel Theodore)
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. (Bikel Theodore)
Great and good are seldom the same man. (Bikel Theodore)
The price of greatness is responsibility. (Bikel Theodore)
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. (Bikel Theodore)
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