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“Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.”

Men Feels Mind Would Be Values Greatness Higher Glory Standards Raised Practicals Height Tempted Value Of Life Practical Life

Book:Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964

Source: Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964

“Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man. Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.Joy is wealth.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger goal, which is to call upon the best of America. It's part of the renewal. It's reform and renewal. Part of the renewal is a set of high standards and to remind people that the greatness of America really does depend on neighbors helping neighbors and children finding mentors. I worry. I'm very worried about, you know, the kid who just wonders whether America is meant for him. I really worry about that.”

“When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.”

Men Seems Action Humanity Impossible Greatness Produce Standards Historical Contrary Saving Great Men Conception Historian Thread Atrocities

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“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

“When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.”

May Able Greatness Integrity Highest Standards Destined Destined For Greatness

Author:Napoleon Hill

“The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.”

Remember Literature Greatness Standards Determined

Book:Essays Ancient and Modern

Source: Essays Ancient and Modern

“A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.... No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.”

People World May Mean Art Literature Greatness Amount Standards Finals Inferiors Great Literature Literature And Art

Author:James Weldon Johnson

“The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?”

Men Humans Wells May Spiritual Asks Greater Greatness Standards Twenties Regard Islam Empires Founders

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.”

Life Giving Wealth Simple Greatness Inspirational Life One Day Goodness Standards Judgement Judged Seeming Standards Of Living

Book:Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward

Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward

“Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.”

Ifs Trying Long Doe Truth Remember Natural Trouble Greatness Standards Ideals Remembered Faithful Being Faithful

Book:Of Literature

Source: Of Literature