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Quote: The price of greatness is responsibility Author: Sir Winston Churchill

Quote: Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm Author: Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Quote: Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion Author: G. W. F. Hegel

Quote: Great deeds are usaully wrought at great risks Author: Heordotus

Quote: Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness Author: Rev. Randall R. Mcbride Jr.

Quote: There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity Author: Buck Rodgers

Quote: To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness? Author: William Thackeray

Quote: There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those Author: Mother Teresa

Quote: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. Author: Aristotle

Quote: We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit. Author: Aristotle

Quote: Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. Author: Athenæus

Quote: Most certification today is pure 'credentialism.' [It] must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment. Author: William John Bennett

Quote: The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. Author: Mary Bertone

Quote: It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Quote: The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Author: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Quote: Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. Author: Albert Camus

Quote: The price of greatness is responsibility. Author: Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Quote: There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. Author: Grover Cleveland

Quote: Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. Author: Noel Coward

Quote: Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown. Author: General Charles De Gaulle

Quote: It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home. Author: Alvaro de Solva

Quote: What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote: To be great is to be misunderstood. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote: The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. Author: John William Gardner

Quote: Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Author: Kahlil Gibran

Quote: Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Author: Kahlil Gibran

Quote: There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. Author: Victor Hugo

Quote: We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Author: Jesse Louis Jackson

Quote: Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Author: Stephen Jobs

Quote: I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence. Author: Lyndon Baines Johnson

Quote: The noblest search is the search for excellence. Author: Lyndon Baines Johnson

Quote: There is no real excellence in all this world Which can be separated from right living. Author: David Star Jordan

Quote: The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy. Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Quote: Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote: All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote: Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. Author: Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire

Quote: The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. Author: Vincent Thomas Lombardi

Quote: The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. Author: Vincent Thomas Lombardi

Quote: After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live. Author: Vincent Thomas Lombardi

Quote: To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina. Author: George Stanley McGovern

Quote: Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. Author: Marabel Morgan

Quote: What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance. Author: Richard Milhouse Nixon

Quote: The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. Author: Richard Milhouse Nixon

Quote: I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. Author: Camille Paglia

Quote: Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. Author: Plutarch

Quote: If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss. Author: François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Quote: Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness--great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. Author: Jim Rohn

Quote: Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention. Author: Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

Quote: Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them. Author: Sophocles

Quote: The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free. Author: Charles R. Swindoll

Quote: Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. Author: Publilius Syrus

Quote: In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness. Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Quote: America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. Author: Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

Quote: Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great. Author: Harry S. Truman

Quote: To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Author: Sun Tzu

Quote: Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. Author: Oprah Winfrey

Quote: I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip. Author: Roger Zelazny

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