“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”
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“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.”
“Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.”
“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.”
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”
“In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?”
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
“Where there is great love, there are always wishes.”
“I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”
“Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.”
“There is a woman at the begining of all great things.”
“If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.”
“Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
“America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.”
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”
“The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.”
“Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.”
“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.”
“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.”
“I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.”
“A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.”
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
“The great object is that every man be armed.”