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“Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.”

Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928

“If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.”

Ifs Mean Nations Growth Company Power Economic Greatness Economics Definitions Prosperous Economic Growth Great Ones Great Nations Great Company

Author:James C. Collins

“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”

Ifs Knows Men Should Believe Able Life Is Strong Given Fear Perfect Doubt Atheism Greatness Bounds Vices Rage Smoking Given Up Latent Perfect Man

Author:Italo Svevo

“A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often better) writers cannot find or will not deign to use. I doubt if this is true. Nor do I believe the contention of some popular novelists... that thier success is based on literary merit -- that the public understands true greatness in ways the tight-a**ed, consumed-by-jealousy literary establishment cannot. This idea is ridiculous, a product of vanity and insecurity.”

“A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.”

Ifs Men Should Doe Path Greatness Rate Excellent Great Men Prudent

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”

“motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.”

Ifs Inspirational Enough Motivational Motivation Greatness Marketing Idiot Motivated Insperational

Author:Jim Rohn

“The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That's why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another. -- Snow pg 119”

People Ifs Thinking World Feels Made Together Beautiful Life Is Common Creation Greatness Hatred Eternity Sight Greed Casts Snow Spite Veils Wrath Short Life Enmity

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.”

“And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle”

Ifs Knows Men World Needs America Winning Nations Blood Greatness Tears Willing Ready Battle Treasure Strife Readiness

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty." "If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?" "Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.”

Ifs Wells Looks Enough Suffering Father Wish Greatness Duty Fine Quiet Reputation Luxury Free Will Heroism Physicians Behalf Candor Respectability True Greatness

Author:Libba Bray

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”

“It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.”

Ifs Imagine Greatness

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.”

Ifs Thinking Men Humans Has Beens Humanity Evil Sound Human Beings Forget Compassion Boys Worst Greatness Capable Capacity Infinite Torture March Never Forget Scream Nobility Sad Truth

Book:Bloodstone

Source: Bloodstone

“She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.”

Ifs Men Feels Character Wise Greatness Possession Intellect Defined Reverence Good Will

Book:Good Wives: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: Good Wives: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.”

Ifs Knows Soul Growth Possibility Greatness Deeds Trials Avoided Undone

Book:Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“There is within each of us a divine spark of greatness. Who knows of what we are capable if we only try?”

Ifs Knows Trying Greatness Divine Capable Sparks

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”

Ifs Men Character Wisdom Light Hours Business Greatness Perseverance Aviator Flamboyant Daily Work

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Said Written Greatness Arrogance Great Men Finches

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.”

Ifs Goal Worry Risk Greatness Involved Positivity Worthwhile Strong Women Encouraging Words Of Encouragement Stop Worrying Aviator

Author:Amelia Earhart

“Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more?”

Ifs Men Should Firsts Girl Asks Cutting Greatness Police Shame Longing Privilege Worthy Remarks Woven Harness Whittling

Book:The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

“‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.”

Ifs World Stills Two Talent Greatness Jew Pessimism World War Ii Tribes Cursed Irritating

Book:City of Thieves: A Novel

Source: City of Thieves: A Novel

“All great fighting is the same, Eragon, even as all great warriors are the same. Past a certain point, it does not matter whether you wield a sword, a claw, a tooth or a tail. It is true, you must be capable with your weapon, but anyone with the time, and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness, and it is those qualities that the best warriors share, even if, on the surface, they appear completely different.”

“Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.”

Source: No Man Is an Island

“For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”

“Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I changed the world today?”

Source: Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy

“It's not bragging if you can back it up.”

Ifs Fighting Sports Greatness Boxing Bragging Brag Bowling Famous Boxer Like A Butterfly Boxing Champions Braggarts

Author:Muhammad Ali

“I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”

Ifs World Said Enough Greatness Marketing Convince Affirmation Convincing Famous Boxer Lack Of Faith Cassius Cassius Clay Accomplish Nothing I Believe In Myself

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!”

Ifs Persons Made Grows Can Do Greatness Potential For Greatness

Author:Joyce Meyer

“...if God teaches us victory in Christ Jesus day by day, we live in the constant awareness of His greatness and His sufficiency. Hard lessons are often long-lasting lessons. Never forget that God is far more interested in our getting to know the Deliverer than simply being delivered.”

Ifs Knows Long Hard Jesus Christ Forget Teach Awareness Greatness Victory Lessons Constant Lasting Never Forget Sufficiency Long Lasting Hard Lessons

Book:Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds

Source: Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds

“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

“I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”

Source: I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence

“We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country. ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must keep in mind all that may work towards the glory of his country. In every great scientist will be found a great patriot.”

Ifs Mind May Country Science Found Greatness Hard Work Glory Scientist Patriot Neutrality Great Scientist

Author:Louis Pasteur

“There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you fail, which we all must, everything you do in your work is somehow connected with your attitude toward life, your deepest secret feelings.”

Ifs Art Form Attitude Struggle Failing Achieve Greatness Bigger Strive Connected Life Struggle Achieve Greatness Something Bigger Than Yourself

Author:Rex Harrison

“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.”

Source: The Winners Edge

“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

“Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Ideas Motivational Greatness Demand Basketball Research Competition Great Idea

Author:Magic Johnson

“Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.”

Ifs Knows Looks Ideas Motivational Greatness Listening Great Idea Just Listen

Author:Sam Walton

“If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university.”

Ifs Humans Helping Bigs Would Be Human Beings Greater Greatness University Great Things If I Could

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building something great. And its really... it's a good organizational structure where you can really reward people. If they're building something that's good, you can you work with partners and reward them if the product that you're developing work well. It's a good way to get the best people involved to build something very good.”

“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”

Ifs Men Truth Asks Forget Greatness Achieve Greatness Greatness Of Man

Author:Horace Mann

“If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?”

Ifs Care Attitude Greatness Positive Attitude

Author:Brian Tracy

“The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."”

Ifs Self Shows Motivational Motivation Guy Turns Wish Plans Greatness What If Turn Me

Author:Jim Rohn

“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

“Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.”

“If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus.... He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship.”

Ifs World Needs Heart Art Jesus Prayer Christianity Greatness Cold Worship Raises Revelations Rapture Upheaval Cold Heart True Worship

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“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.”

Ifs Mind Whole Universe Given Sun Tree Sky Creation Fields Greatness Flower Listening Draws Garden Praise Innocent Architect Sovereign Sermons Recreation Meadows Praise God

Author:Paul of the Cross

“If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.”

Ifs Humans Wells Soul Helping Hate Found Belief Force Human Beings Quality Greatness Mercy Train Greed Helping Others Cruelty Power Of Love Good Quality Hate And Fear

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.”

“Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance.”

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