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  • The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

    Age   Glory   Disappear  
  • When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.

    Thinking   People   Drunk  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

    Greatness   Effort   Done  
  • If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

  • True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.

  • The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools

    Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.11, WILLIAM HEINEMANN
  • I think LPGA players for a long time were afraid to say what's on their minds. But we're doing all the right things and there's nothing wrong with having some great personalities and rivalries and some friction. I think that's really good for the sport.

  • I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say — Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.

    Faith   Heart   Giving  
    "My Utmost for His Highest".
  • Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

    "THE CRAFTSMAN - For JASON ALEXANDER, life after Seinfeld is a lot like before: It's about the work". Interview with Rob Kendt, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2001.
  • Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

  • Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.335
  • All the great persons of the world, whatever had been their mission in life, proved their greatness by this one quality: endurance. The enduring personality is like a ship that can stand storms and winds under all conditions, the ship that saves itself and others. Such blessed personalities, showing the strength of God have been called the saviors of humanity.

  • The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.

  • One of my great personal triumphs is, because I stay vigilant about my health, I was never going to give my detractors the satisfaction of not feeling well, or allowing my health to falter while eating rich and indulgent food all over the world.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy are all worth reading. I wouldn't consider anyone truly politically literate if they hadn't given her work at least some study.

  • Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

    Real   Character   People  
    "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.
  • She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

    Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall”, p.182, Faber & Faber
  • When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera.

  • If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

    Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.593, Discovery House
  • A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

  • The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

    Life   Motivation   Doe  
  • Every great person educates themselves.

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  • Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

    Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.299, Simon and Schuster
  • You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

  • The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Works: English traits, Conduct of life”
  • It's not about finding great people, it's about becoming a great person

    Mlm   People   Marketing  
  • The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

  • Going forward, anything that Richard [Ayoade] asks me to do, I would be so honoured... even if it's sweeping the street because he's such a great person and a great friend.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • We turned the lights off to save money, so you can't really see it. It's the same show. Hopefully, there are lots of laughs and lots of great personal stuff, but it is explicitly a darker season [4 of Sherlock Holmes].

    Light   Laughing   Stuff  
    Source: collider.com
  • Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

    Thinking   Men   Judging  
    John Locke (1840*). “The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon”, p.130
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