“I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.” MenRealDreamDiesLosesDemocracyGreatnessSourceSubmit Author:Edwin Land
“Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.” CertainGreatnessSourceCertain 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.” PeopleForeverGreatnessSourceCircumstancesCountrysideSource 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.” WellsEndsMightSilenceGreatnessSourceElementsOceanTranscendental 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.” IfsWayGivingLooksArtDoneSpiritIndividualProcessGreatnessMinesMaterialsSourcePersonalityEssentialsConceptsOriginalsPhotographerAcknowledgeWorks Of ArtGiving BackInsistenceAcknowledgmentIndividual Personality Author:Paul Caponigro
“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.” FoundNationsLeadershipLeaderGreatnessSourceHigherCitizensStandardsAverageStreamsCitizenship 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.” MenLightEyeGreatnessSourceHigherLaborDifficultyRelationErrorsPainfulHis EyesGreat MenSpheresCorrectionsVigilant Book:Representative Men: Seven Lectures Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures