He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

Dejan Stojanovic

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Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'.

Ogwo David Emenike

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The idea isn't to do the impossible. The idea is to show the world that if one man can do the impossible, then maybe the rest of the world can do what's possible.

Jonathan Malley

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The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

Oscar Wilde

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A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it.

G.K. Chesterton

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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

Robert Hughes

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But what is great can only begin great.

Martin Heidegger

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إن تَسَلْ أين قبورُ العُظما فعلى الأفواه أو في الأنفُسْ

أحمد شوقي

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When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of ‘greatness.’ ‘Greatness,’ it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the ‘great’ man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a ‘great’ man can be blamed.

Leo Tolstoy

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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

John Buchan

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