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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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[The] Great suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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A lot of guys go into the NBA not being able to shoot the ball well, but then they become great shooters.
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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
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Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend —
Path, motive, guide, original and end.Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book III, section 9, line 27 -
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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