- Neglect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greatness Quotes
On what makes greatness genuine rather than assumed.
These lines weigh greatness against its opposites, noting how certain habits are incompatible with it and how proximity to great people can diminish or elevate those around them. Other quotes connect greatness to shared history and untapped regional potential. Continue with Achievement quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.
- Dante
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- Nov 07, 2020
The founding father of Albanian literature is the nineteenth-century writer Naim Frasheri. Without having the greatness of Dante or Shakespeare, he is nonetheless the founder, the emblematic character. He wrote long epic poems, as well as lyrical poetry, to awaken the national consciousness of Albania.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.
- Nov 07, 2020
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
- Dejected
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- Nov 07, 2020
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020