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“Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

“I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.”

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

“Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.”

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

“Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.”

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.”

“Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has promised to gather them; therefore inasmuch as you are to be instrumental in this great work, He will endow you with power, wisdom, might, and intelligence, and every qualification necessary.”

“Sacrifice: Giving up something good for something better. As I have studied great men and women from the beginning of time, the common denominator of greatness has been the ability and willingness to sacrifice for whatever they were trying to achieve. When sacrifice has been there, great humans have emerged. Imagination, Wisdom”