Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
William ShakespeareTags: greatness
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 TwainTags: greatness
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert EinsteinTags: greatness opposition spirit
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.
[Epitaph, upon his instructions to erect a 'a plain die or cube ... surmounted by an Obelisk' with 'the following inscription, and not a word more…because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.' It omits that he had been President of the United States, a position of political power and prestige, and celebrates his involvement in the creation of the means of inspiration and instruction by which many human lives have been liberated from oppression and ignorance]
Tags: greatness epitaph declaration-of-independence religious-freedom university-of-virginia
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: greatness
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de GaulleTags: inspirational greatness man men
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
Judy GarlandTags: individuality greatness be-yourself
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin CoolidgeTags: wisdom greatness listening
I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John KeatsTo be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: greatness
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