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  • #1
    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

  • #2
    Judy Garland
    “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
    Judy Garland

  • #3
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

  • #4
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “A great man is always willing to be little.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #5
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

  • #6
    Mario Puzo
    “Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #7
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
    Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

  • #8
    Calvin Coolidge
    “It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
    Calvin Coolidge

  • #9
    Steve Maraboli
    “You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #10
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #11
    John Keats
    “I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”
    John Keats

  • #12
    “Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.”
    Cher

  • #13
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #14
    Steve Maraboli
    “Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #15
    “So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.”
    Lady Gaga

  • #16
    Charles de Gaulle
    “Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”
    Charles de Gaulle

  • #17
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Good and great are seldom in the same man. ”
    Winston S. Churchill



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