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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

“The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness...”

Knows Men Littles Doe Knowing Greatness Illusion Cover Ups Little Man Smallness

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.”

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.”

Knows Inspirational Action Passion Knowledge Knowing Greatness Productivity Not Knowing Knowing What To Do Knowing And Doing

Author:Tony Robbins

“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

“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.”

Knows Philosophy Existence Knowing Greatness Trust Philosopher Novelists Sensations Objectivism

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.”

Persons Said Feelings Voice Pleasure Pay Knowing Greatness Understood Acknowledge Modesty Tribute Flattered

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.”

Soul Knowing Greatness Limits Oneself Soar Adaptability Pressing Forward

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.”

Knowing Wise Greatness Martial Arts Being Wise Cassius Clay

Author:Muhammad Ali

“And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.”

Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow

“Many are so preoccupied with what others think it defines their existence. When we fixate externally, it keeps us from truly knowing ourselves and our destiny. Most [people] fear looking inward for worry they won't find greatness, but when you stop allowing others to define your worth, you'll see—greatness exists in us all, waiting to be expressed”

People Thinking Waiting Existence Destiny Worry Knowing Greatness Allowing Inward Our Destiny

Author:Jillian Michaels

“Humility: The realization of our dependence on God. I have always had strong feelings about that word regardless of what anyone's background might be. One of the common denominators of greatness is acknowledging that dependence. As power comes from Charity, power also comes from knowing who you are, a divine offspring of a divine being.”