#greatness

A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been truly outstanding, so that, if he is not quite as skillful as they, at least some of their ability may rub off on him. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#greatness #imitation #learning #men

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted. ↗

— Hayley Williams

#greatness #inspiration #inspirational #problems #struggle

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. ↗

— William Booth

#his #man #measure #power #surrender

I want to drown in all the ink used to write positive things about my clone and how great he is. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#clones #funny #greatness #humor #ink

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man. ↗

— Shams-ud-din Muhammed Hafiz

#inspirational #three-cups-of-tea #inspirational

True greatness is often unrecognized. ↗

— Russell H. Conwell

#greatness #inspiration #inspirational

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#come #correspondingly #end #ever #great

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK? ↗

— Rick Santelli

#culture #energy #goes #greatness #hand-in-hand

God is great, God is faithful". ~R. Alan Woods [2103] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#god #greatness #r-alan-woods #faith

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her. ↗

— Iain Pears

#dialectics #education #greatness #hypatia-of-alexandria #knowledge