Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Faith Quotes, Greatness Quotes

If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

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Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.

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

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All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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

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All great men are partially inspired.

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In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

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The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

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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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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

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When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

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