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“In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.”

Thinking Life Mind Doe Character Body Action Three Force Behinds Attitude Greatness Personality Driving Mood Instance Pilots Driving Force

Author:Walt Disney

“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.”

Inspirational Needs Motivation Three Evil Greatness Encouragement Vices Boredom Spares Cool Motivational

Author:Voltaire

“Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity in thought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H's is essential. 'Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.”

“Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an idealist; he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader.”

People Men Spiritual Three Born Quality Moral Greatness Concepts Tables Heritage Idealism Idealist Wilson Personification

Book:The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson

“To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?”

“We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.”

Needs Feelings Age Wanted Three Left Powerful Modern Middle Greatness Tragedy Absolutes Saint Purity Most Powerful Heroism Craving Middle Ages Modern Life

Author:Anais Nin

“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.”

Needs Desire Three Four Sea Achieve Greatness Wine Disappointment Finished Achieve Greatness

Book:Beautiful Ruins

Source: Beautiful Ruins

“There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an one was Voltaire, of whom it was epigrammatically said: "he expressed everybody's thoughts better than anyone." But there are other men who attain greatness because they embody the potentiality of their own day and magically reflect the future. They express the thoughts which will be everybody's two or three centuries after them. Such as one was Descartes.”

Men Said Two Age Science Three Century Greatness Mirrors Actuality

Author:Thomas Huxley

“If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.”

“Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you.”

Ifs Stills Faith Three Secret Millions Greatness Hundred Salvation Thirty Midst Have Faith Faith In God Foreigners Have Faith In God

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.”

Source: The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition

“What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.”

Self Reason Purpose Values Three Answers Self Esteem Greatness Capacity Fundamentals Esteem Live By

Author:Ayn Rand

“If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?”

Ifs Men Humans Mean Purpose Three Results Greatness Genius Dare Compare Great Men Criteria Astonishing Muhammad Smallness

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'”

Men Made Said Facts Three Courses Heaven Waiting Water Perfect Virtue Path Greatness Thousand Hundred All Things Embrace Height Sage Ceremony Demeanor

Book:The Chinese Classics

Source: The Chinese Classics