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“Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race.”

Ifs Want Running Moving Winning Force Waiting Race Greatness Courageous Pace Detrimental Sprint

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Littles Would Be Greatness Great Men

Author:George Herbert

“Champions get up! When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something! Champions get up! Focus your mind, pull yourself together. If you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on! You are a champion. You are more than a conqueror. Keep the faith. Cry if you must. You are still here. God is not through with you yet. You were born to win. Champions get up! You are a champion. You have GREATNESS within you!”

Ifs Mind Stills Ends Together Winning Born Focus Cry Greatness Get Up Ties Champion Within You Rope Knots Conqueror Keep The Faith Greatness Within Born To Win

Author:Les Brown

“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!”

“If life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. And if you get up, you can stand up. And if you stand up, you can fight for your dream once again. You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!”

“If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.”

Ifs World Light Turns Fall Felt Pleasure Sun Streets Greatness Shadow Falling In Love Lightning Impressed Thunder Majesty Fireworks Short Lived Thunder And Lightning Street Lights

Author:John Piper

“We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence.”

Ifs World Art Important Ideas Term White Greatness Civilization Tradition Excellence Males Rate Tricks Defined Artistic Distinction Denied Great Art Elitist Second Rate

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing--or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don't and can't get anyway.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Needs Different Self Father Boys Greatness Strive Unhappy Postcards

Author:Brock Clarke

“Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?”

Ifs Pleasure Practice Study Greatness Remains Sage Annoyed

Author:Confucius

“Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.”

Ifs Has Beens Country Would Be America Loses Justice Pay Crime Greatness Elements Pages Determination Forgotten Ugly Debt Recalls American History Indispensable Misdeeds

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.”

Ifs Knows Chance Achieve Greatness Conservative Makes You Stronger Achieve Greatness Just Keep Moving Just Keep Moving Forward Just Keep Moving On

Author:Danica Patrick

“For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That's the Law of Significance.”

Ifs Want Trying Persons Bigs Law Games Numbers Achieve Greatness Significance Links Achieve Greatness

Book:Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)

Source: Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)

“If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.”

Ifs Want Important Wonderful Greatness Definitions Servant Drum Major

Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.”

Ifs Happens Speak Happened Greatness Distance Yesterday Grain Immense

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.”

Ifs Art Character Shows Sound Emotion Greatness Music Is Dignity Absolutes Very Good Noble Tenderness Nobility Pompous Popular Music

Author:Arthur Rubinstein

“To become great, you have to be born great. If you are born again then you are the seed of Abraham. That means you have greatness in you!”

Ifs Mean Born Greatness Seeds Abraham Born Again

Author:Chris Oyakhilome

“If the Holy Spirit takes over your family, your business or your health, it doesn't matter what troubles you've been experiencing or what's been going wrong, you will begin to go from strength to strength, from grace to grace, from faith to faith, from success to success and from greatness to greatness. When the Holy Spirit takes over your life, He'll drive every sickness out of your body; He'll make right everything that was wrong.”

Ifs Matter Body Spirit Grace Trouble Greatness Holy Your Body Our Family Holy Spirit Sickness Over You

Author:Chris Oyakhilome

“Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

“Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.”

Ifs Facts Love Is Greatness Gifted What You Love Great Gifts

Book:It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE

Source: It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE

“Greatness is contagious...You'll catch it if you get around it.”

Ifs Greatness Contagious

Author:T. D. Jakes

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”

Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

“We were all illegal at one point and we were all unwanted at one point. Somebody in our family, if not us, was undesirable, and yet here we are. And this moral equivalence that this president [Barak Obama] makes is part and parcel of his effort to tear down the greatness and the uniqueness of this country. Make no mistake.”

Ifs Country President Effort Mistake Moral Greatness Tears Our Family Illegal Uniqueness Unwanted Parcel Undesirable Barak Obama

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“That is part of why we must keep talking about Fannie Lou Hamer and about our history as a party and as a nation. We can't forget. If we forget, we can get self-righteous. We are great, but we had to grow into that greatness. Let's not forget that we shut people out.”

People Ifs Self Nations Grows Forget Party Talking Greatness Righteous Self Righteous Keep Talking

Author:Leah D. Daughtry

“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

“To be honest, there are many things said about Russia because they have been demonized for years at the behest of the USA. It is part of the greatness of a European country to develop one's own opinion and to not view everything through the US lens. We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Said Country Views Opinion Teach Honest Greatness Lessons Red China Russia Being Honest Usa Lenses Carpet Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Red Carpet European Countries Qatar

Author:Marine Le Pen

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.”

Ifs Men Inspiration Action Force Leadership Power Greatness Inspirational Life Rebellious Possessing Deep Within

Book:Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought

Source: Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought

“There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.”

Ifs Inspirational Use Dream Inspiration Greatness Mindset Life And Love

Book:ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...

Source: ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...

“Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.”

“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”

“To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.”

Ifs Should Dies Achieve Greatness Achieve Greatness

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.”

Ifs Motivational Growth Change Wise Tree Greatness Things Change Don't Change Network Marketing Starting Anew

Author:Jim Rohn

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Giving Trying Years Can Do Hurt Silence Wonder Knowing Worst Awareness Greatness Silent Personal Development Worst Things Hurt Feelings Successful Life Belief In Self

Author:Jim Rohn

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.”

“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.”

Ifs Inspirational Book Missing Greatness Meals Missing You Successful Life

Author:Jim Rohn

“Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.”

People Ifs Inspirational Forever Greatness Summer Spring Seasons Plant Perseverance June Inspirational Perseverance Perseverence

Author:Jim Rohn

“Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.”

Ifs Needs Feels Wells Business Greatness Skills Doctors Marketing Customers Marketplace Network Marketing Need Money

Author:Jim Rohn

“This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Children Made Country Today Decision Party Greatness Right Now Our Children Threatening Human History

Author:Marco Rubio

“If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.”

Ifs Self Country Eye Voice Greatness Tears Our Country Denial Deception Hype Self Deception Self-denial Gags Blindfolds

Author:Theodore C. Sorensen

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”

“The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”

Ifs Knows Challenges Courage Know How Sadness Positive Greatness Genius Mountain Highest Disappointment Valleys Magnificent Tested

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.”

Ifs Men Life Motivational Nature Leadership Business Positive Greatness Expected Nature Of Man Greatest Leadership

Author:John Steinbeck

“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

“Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.”

Ifs Life Lasts Greatness Everyday Uplifting Crush Someday Day Live For Today Live Everyday

Author:Muhammad Ali