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“A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.”

Dream Age Moving Strong Love Is Greater Minutes Greatness Weak Filled Patterns Granted Splendor

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.”

Ifs Feels Doe Matter Pain Suffering Force Lines Ability Doubt Cry Greatness Weak Slave Internals Distress Weak Women

Book:The Gay Science

Source: The Gay Science

“Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.”

Men Kind Made Stuff Trouble Greatness Weak Tests Spite Rise Above Handicaps

Book:Getting on

Source: Getting on

“When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!”

People Stills Ends Nations Youth Greatness Thousand Weak Glorious Prime Expansion Manhood Shrinks Great Nations Coming To An End

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.”

Self Use Greatness Tools Weak Excuse Reaching Strongest

Author:Robin Sharma

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”

“That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.”

Humans Persons Reason America Conditions Greatness Survival Dignity Weak Tests Ultimate Abortion Unborn Defenseless

Author:Pope John Paul II