"The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny."

Speakman, Frederick on decisions
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"Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering."

Rosenstein, Harriet on destiny
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"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule..."

Einstein, Albert on service
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"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny."

Proverb, South African on country
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"A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on greatness
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"Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on greatness
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"No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."

Hazlitt, William on greatness   

"There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet."

Halsey, William F. on greatness   

"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities."

Gibran, Kahlil on greatness
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"The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on greatness   

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Churchill, Winston on greatness
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"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on greatness
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"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know."

Carrel, Alexis on greatness   

"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Carlyle, Thomas on greatness   

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"The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth --the power to love --although I have put it last, is the rarest."

Asquith, Margot on greatness
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"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on greatness   

"It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness."

Gardner, Edward on greatness   

"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on greatness
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"Whatever you are, be a good one."

Lincoln, Abraham on greatness
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"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

Moore, Mary Tyler on pain
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"Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."

Ellis, Havelock on pain
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"The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales."

Aesop on pain
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"The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them."

Lao-Tzu on victory   

"We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace."

Hoffman, Paul on victory
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"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on victory
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"The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give."

Cosell, Howard on victory   

"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."

Mannes, Marya on greatness   

"You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing."

Mcgovern, George on greatness   

"The first step toward greatness is to be honest."

Proverb on greatness
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"It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant."

Watson, James on greatness   

"A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory."

Corneille, Pierre on victory
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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

Maugham, W. Somerset on quotations
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"Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson."

Law, Vernon S. on experience   

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."

Waitley, Denis on failure
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"It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself."

Crosby, Cathy Lee on learning
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"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."

Bodett, Tom on school
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"The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: Never hurt anybody."

Breeze, Denis on children   

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Churchill, Winston on life
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