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“You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins.”

Needs Sin Numbers Greatness

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.”

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Author:Norm MacDonald

“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.”

People Men Life Littles Country Numbers Greatness Determined Height

Author:Victor Hugo

“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)

“The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.”

Firsts Different Young Numbers Greatness Taught Discipline Fundamentals Athlete Technique Coaches Aspire Young Athletes

Author:Zig Ziglar

“One is too small a number to achieve greatness.”

Leadership Numbers Leader Achieve Greatness Achieve Greatness

Book:The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

Source: The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

“It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors.”

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Author:Haki R. Madhubuti

“A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.”

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Book:Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president

Source: Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president

“It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observed, the more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced, and leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.”

Source: Comparative statistics in the 19th century

“One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.”

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Book:The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs

Source: The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs

“To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.”

Years Wells Long Hard Seems Hours Levels Numbers Practice Magic Greatness Amount Thousand Ten Chess Nine Elites Legendary Nine Years

Author:Malcolm Gladwell