Best greatness & given Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The man who has given himself to his country loves it better; the man who has fought for his friend honors him more; the man who has labored for his community values more highly the interests he has sought to conserve; the man who has wrought and planned and endured for the accomplishment of God's plan in the world sees the greatness of it, the divinity and glory of it, and is himself more perfectly assimilated to it.”

Author:Theodore Parker

“Greatness is earned, not given.”

Given Greatness

Author:J. J. Watt

“Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become man, and man has become God by the union of My Divine Nature with your human nature. This greatness is given in general to all rational creatures, but, among these I have especially chosen My ministers for the sake of your salvation, so that, through them, the Blood of the humble and immaculate Lamb, My only-begotten Son, may be administered to you.”

Men Humans May Said Given Blood Human Nature Greatness Divine Son Creatures Salvation Unions Sake Humble Chosen Rational Ministers Lambs Divine Nature Immaculate

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.”

People Has Beens Facts Earth Given Nations Responsibility Greatness Duty Relation Expected Behave Great Nations Shirk

Book:The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“Insight is the God given ability for you to know your Identity, your Kingdom ID; your spiritual DNA; your uniqueness in the earth and in the Body of Christ. There is no one like you. You are predestined for Greatness.”

Knows Body Earth Spiritual Given Christ Ability Identity Greatness Like You Insight Kingdoms Uniqueness Dna Body Of Christ Predestined

Author:Chuck Pierce

“The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”

Men World Inspirational Has Beens Motivational Given Stuff Can Do Responsibility This World Greatness Excellence

Book:Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate

Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate

“Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness”

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Author:Italo Svevo

“In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.”

Ends Purpose Given Greatness Graves

Book:Beautiful Darkness

Source: Beautiful Darkness

“I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside them. It is just a matter of persistence--sticking to what you have envisioned until it is reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose in life. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.”

Source: Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back Into the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy Life

“Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through the garden or the fields, listening to the sermon preached by the flowers, the trees, the meadows, the sun, the sky, and the whole universe. You will find that they exhort you to love and praise God; that they excite you to extol the greatness of the Sovereign Architect Who has given them their being.”

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Author:Paul of the Cross

“No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.”

People Life Giving God Given Felt Mankind Greatness Degrees True Greatness

Author:Phillips Brooks

“The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.”

Knows May Stills Ends Lying Order Turns Next Given Goal Behinds Steps Know How Journey Greatness Corners Encounters Prize Bends In The Road

Book:The Greatest Secret In The World

Source: The Greatest Secret In The World

“Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!”

Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)

“The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.”

Given Greatness Saint Contemplation

Author:Pope Gregory I

“The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.”

Ifs Children Made Mother Artist Values Passion Given Break Greater Greatness Birth Limits Equal Lust Made It Empires Destroying Murderer Statues Vandals

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you've achieved in your life or what gifts you've given to the rest of humanity, if you criticize Israel, you must expect to become persona non grata. You should expect an utter onslaught of attacks.”

Ifs Should Matter Humanity Given Greatness No Matter What Who You Are Israel Libertarian Criticize Persona

Author:Susan Abulhawa

“...the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It's just a given.”

Ifs Trying Believe Enough Seems Care Purpose Given Business Imagine Impossible Greatness

Author:James C. Collins

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