Mark Twain Quotes, Lying Quotes, Greatness Quotes

It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.

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Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Pride Quotes , Greatness Quotes

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

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I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.

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Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

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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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I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

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There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

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Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

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He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

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A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

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The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

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Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

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A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

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