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“I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.”

Men Real Dream Dies Loses Democracy Greatness Source Submit

Author:Edwin Land

“Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.”

Certain Greatness Source Certain Knowledge

Author:Ralph Steadman

“The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.”

People Forever Greatness Source Circumstances Countryside Source Of Strength

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.”

Wells Ends Might Silence Greatness Source Elements Ocean Transcendental

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is in constantly giving back, coming to an acknowledgment of the source. Look back to the source of any individual, any process, any set of materials. If the individual personality can relinquish its insistence on concepts like this is mine, I did it, this is original, nobody else has done it, it goes straight for greatness or the essential spirit.”

“The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.”

Found Nations Leadership Leader Greatness Source Higher Citizens Standards Average Streams Citizenship

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.”

Men Light Eye Greatness Source Higher Labor Difficulty Relation Errors Painful His Eyes Great Men Spheres Corrections Vigilant

Book:Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures

“Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside”

Might Artist Turns Sound Answers Accepting Destiny Greatness Source Bears Tests Asking Rewards Burden Inquiring

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Use every letter you write Every conversation you have Every meeting you attend To express your fundamental beliefs and dreams Affirm to others the vision of the world you want”

“Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.”

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Join the bold, the brazen, the unintimidated. Join not having excuses. Join the idea that fun is the source of all joy. Join the unwillingness to give up. Join doing things your way. Join not joining. Join that purpose is stronger than outcome. Join your gut. Join the constant challenge of seeking greatness. Join play. Join the hunger to find what makes you happy. Join karma and nature and the effect you have on your world. Join your philosophy. Join something bigger than you. Join what you believe.”

“Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.”

Inspirational Growth Greatness Source Blessing Experience Adversity Embrace Seeking Dare Improvement Greatest Blessings Deepness

Author:Aron Ralston