greatness

is accomplished not only through acting and planning... it also requires dreaming and believing.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream... not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France

is achieved by living as if one will never die.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is being the kind of person who makes the others around one great.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great. Mark Twain

is free, kind, familiar and popular... it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters... the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular... it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters... the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

is judged by how much a man will be missed.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

is large and copious of himself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams.

only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent... not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

is made not by the strength of the sentiments of great men, but by the duration of those sentiments.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. Friedrich Nietzsche

is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

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