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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Elizabeth Bowen

Greatness

Want

Youth

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Greatness

Public

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

Peter S. Beagle

Greatness

Heroes

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

Elgin Baylor

Greatness

Will

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Jean Baudrillard

Greatness

Negative

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

Greatness is a spiritual condition.

Matthew Arnold

Greatness

Spiritual

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Jean Anouilh

Courage

Greatness

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!