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“Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.”

Ifs Knows Needs Kind Soul Faces Desire Turns Opportunity Knowing Greatness Shapes Dare Nobility Boldness Complacent Knowing The Future

Book:Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.”

Faces Poverty Greatness Appeals Mask Veils Covering Tribulation

Author:Khalil Gibran

“History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.”

Giving Faces Greatness Humility Ought Noble Sentiments

Author:Vincent Massey

“The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?”

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.”

Mind Feelings Faces Values Force Creativity Creative Greatness Elements Increase Remains Extraordinary Superiors

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Too many of us are not living our dreams, because we are living our fears. Decide to become fearless. Face the thing you fear the most. You're stronger than you give yourself credit for. If you can laugh at it. You can move past it. You have the ability to do more than you have ever hoped, imagined or dreamed. You have GREATNESS within you!”

“To do one's best in the face of the commonplace struggles of life, and possibly in the face of failures, and to continue to endure and persevere with the ongoing difficulties of life - when those struggles and tasks contribute to the progress and happiness of others and the eternal salvation of one's self - this is true greatness.”

Self Faces Struggle Progress Greatness Eternal Tasks Difficulty Salvation Endure Ongoing Persevere Commonplace Life Struggle True Greatness

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!”

Ifs Enough Care Faces Greatness Hair Shining Don't Care Teeth I Don't Care Gaps Gifted Acne Nappies

Author:T. D. Jakes

“The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.”

Ifs Thinking Men Feels Said Book Able Faces Deals Half Modern Students Greatness Philosopher Great Men Plato Simplest Face To Face Inadequate Commentators Great Philosophers

Book:God in the Dock

Source: God in the Dock

“A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.”

People Believe Kind Faces Sleep Greatness Evidence Madness Myth Convinced Chosen Invulnerability

Author:Salman Rushdie

“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”

Want Humans Stills Different Faces Human Beings Greatness Bears Eternity Amor Formulas Idealism Amor Fati

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.”

Source: The Kingdom of this World

“The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.”

Faces Challenges Common Greatness Poet Depends Politician

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life.”

People Giving Facts Faces Opportunity Grows Challenges Greater Greatness Produce Birth Comfort Difficulty Adversity Ease Facts Of Life

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.”

Ifs Real Faces Next Stars Rocks Century Greatness Type Models Management Institutions Endure Triumph Corporations Decline Twentieth Century Rock Star

Author:James C. Collins

“The greatness of our Army has always been the ability of our soldiers who serve in the ranks to rise to the challenge against the odds, in the face of danger, and win.”

Faces Winning Challenges Ability Danger Greatness Army Soldier Odds Against The Odds

Author:Julius W. Gates

“False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.”

Knows Kind Enough Faces Political Politics Loses Greatness Illusion Conscious Familiar Admire Touched Quarters Meanness Frailty Avert True Greatness

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.”

Persons Action Faces Greatness Fellows Refuse Great Person True Greatness Persons Love Bad Actions

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.”

Want America Faces Challenges Leadership Greatness

Author:Paul Tsongas

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