Greatness

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  1. Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies. -Jean Jacques Rousseau.
  2. Each of us is great in so far as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us. - James Harvey Robinson.
  3. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein.
  4. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. -Vincent Van Gogh.
  5. Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. -Henry Ward Beecher.
  6. The price of greatness is responsibility. -Winston Churchill.
  7. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. -William Shakespeare.
  8. There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. -Mother Teresa.
  9. 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. -Khalil Gibran.
  10. 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. -Henri Frédéric Amiel.
  11. Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted. -Napoleon
  12. A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. -Jean de la Bruyère.
  13. Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. -Edmund Burke.
  14. A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. -John Ruskin.
  15. He is not great who is not greatly good. -William Shakespeare.

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