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“Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.”

Men Heart Causes Greatness Becoming Deficiency Earnestness Best Gift Mental Power Becoming Great

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.”

“Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.”

Men Soul Pain Causes Greatness Offers Activity Adversity Shining Endure Generosity Bliss Crush Misfortunes Reverse Nevertheless Mars Severe Nobility Hindrance Owing Insensibility

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Decision is often the difference between greatness and mediocrity. In every man's life there comes a time when he must search for a cause, a work, an ideal to which he can give himself. Whether he says 'Yes' or 'No' to the challenge will determine his future.”

Men Giving Causes Challenges Differences Decision Greatness Ideals Determine Every Man Mediocrity There Comes A Time Yes Or No

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the prince, which temporarily supply the want of religion.”

Want Country Causes Greatness Produce Divine Institutions Ruins Republic Disregard Observance

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.”

Mind Care Fighting Causes Loses Greatness Loser

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. So that team that thinks it's ready to see you, they think what they've seen on film, they ain't saw what film shows, because every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. So now you've got to go out and show them that I'm a different creature now, than I was five minutes ago, cause I'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic.”

Ifs Thinking Men Mean Different Moments Shows Film Causes Effort Five Saws Team Minutes Greatness Ready Creatures Determination Okay Mediocre Five Minutes New Day Being Me Pissed Off

Author:Ray Lewis

“No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.”

Source: Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio

“No tongue is able to declare the greatness of the love that Jesus bears to every soul: and therefore this Spouse, when he would leave this earth, in order that his absence might not cause us to forget him, left us as a memorial this Blessed Sacrament, in which he himself remained; for he would not that there should be any other pledge to keep alive our remembrance of him than he himself.”

Should Soul Might Able Earth Order Jesus Left Causes Forget Alive Greatness Bears Blessed Tongue Absence Remembrance Sacraments Spouse Memorial Pledge Blessed Sacrament Forget Him

Author:Peter of Alcantara

“May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.”

Needs May Humanity Causes Sound Justice Leader Subjects Greatness Particular Integrity Ego Commitment Stress Intelligent Courageous Dedicated Publicity

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”

Causes Grief Worry Greatness Anxiety

Book:The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version

Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version

“The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident and removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of the ruin is simple and obvious: and instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed we should rather be surprised that it has subsisted for so long.”

Source: The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire

“Effort is between you, and you, and nobody elseI'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic.”

Ifs Men Mean Causes Effort Greatness Okay Mediocre Being Me Pissed Off

Author:Ray Lewis

“When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benevolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for that old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God.”