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“Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.”

Mind Children Certain Grows Rocks Greatness Difficulty Aim Proportion Wrestling Nurse Harsh Athletic Foster Children Stature Impediments Grappling

Author:Kobe Bryant

“Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled.”

World Giving Littles Soul Shows Hands Rocks Greatness Lonely Creator Appreciation Earthquakes Stand Alone Great Souls

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.”

Rocks Greatness Adversity Patient Nurse

Author:William C. Bryant

“I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”

Knows Mean Done Lasts Week Rocks Greatness Stones Sick Medicine Jail Lightning Thunder Bricks Injured Whales Alligators

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.”

Children Rocks Strength Greatness Difficulty Adversity Proportion Nurse Harsh Athletic Brethren Foster Children

Author:William C. Bryant

“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

“It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him.”

Should Mean Art War Shows Action Subjects Rocks Greatness Judgment Rounds Reputation Gravity Deceiving Fortitude Art Of War Endeavour Frivolous Spirited Fickle Dealings Irrevocable Mean Spirited

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.”

Kind Success Time Rocks Greatness Band Deserve Originals Plant Our Time Being Successful Deserving Rock Music Rock Bands Zeppelins Rockers Vocalist

Author:Freddie Mercury