Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Distance Quotes, Greatness Quotes

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

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And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle

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Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

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The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.

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To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

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I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

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Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

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The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

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You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

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