“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”
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“There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.”
“The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.”
“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”
“Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.”
“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”
“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
“When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.”
“The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.”
“Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”
“A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.”
“The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.”
“Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.”
“A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.”
“It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.”
“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
“The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.”
“Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.”
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”
“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.”
“Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.”
“I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.”
“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”