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" Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. "

Baltasar Gracian

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" The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation. "

" I've gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it's, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you're having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older. "

" One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. "

" Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are. "

" Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be. "

" A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so. "

" We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless. "

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

" Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. "

" Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" I had a wonderful life and was blessed with so many loving people and great friends. "

" The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds. "

Benjamin N. Cardozo

" First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great. "

" Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions. "

" Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge. "

" No crime is so great as daring to excel. "

Winston Churchill

" It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. "

" I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it. "

" Habit is a great deadener. "

" Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness. "

Francis of Assisi

" At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. "

Baltasar Gracian

" It makes a big difference when men respect women. There are a lot of men who don't, so that's the main quality that would make a good man a great man. "

Stephanie Sigman

" Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. "

W. Clement Stone

" I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Go for great. Own your game. Be kind. Get big things done. "

Robin S. Sharma

" Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" The price of greatness is responsibility. "

Winston Churchill

" There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come. "