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“Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.”

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Book:The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

Source: The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.”

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Author:Eric Avery

“By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.”

Hands Age Certain Gone Fate Greatness Eloquence Hand In Hand

Book:Treasures from the prose writings of John Milton

Source: Treasures from the prose writings of John Milton

“Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.”

“The economy and its dismal status is the result of policy decisions that Obama has made and put into place. It's not the quirk of fate. It's not that America's best days are over. It's not that America's past was a fad or a quirk. It's not that the great economic days of the eighties were illegitimate or unreal. It's not that this is the new normal. It's not that all of the greatness in the past was undeserved. It is precisely because of Obama policies implemented since 2009 that this country is in the shape it's in.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.”

Inspirational Stills Soul Motivation Choices Opportunity Goal Fate Greatness Masters Free Will Captains Insperational Cool Motivational

Book:Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963

Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963

“She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.”

“Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.”

Men Politics Destiny Fate Mankind Greatness Ideals Greatness Within

Author:Albert Camus