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"Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted." -- Napoleon Bonaparte "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -- Mark Twain "From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step." -- Napoleon Bonaparte "If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both." -- Horace Mann "I never liked the middle ground - the most boring place in the world." -- Louise Nevelson "They're only truly great who are truly good." -- George Chapman "In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails." -- Robert Fritz "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone hits you on the cheek, offer them the other cheek." -- Jesus of Nazareth "Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world — to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed." -- Lao Tzu (604-531 B.C.) "When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness." -- Stephen Vizinczey "To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals -- that is what keeps a person patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him." -- Honore De Balzac "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the more important." -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." -- Vincent Van Gogh "There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth." -- Leon Tolstoi "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." -- Albert Pike "To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die." -- Marquis de Vauvenargues "An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous." -- Henry Ford "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." -- Erin Majors "I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest." -- John Keats "Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." -- Oliver Wendall Holmes "All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught." -- Thomas Carlyle "The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little." -- Dr. Samuel Johnson "Greatness comes not when things always go good for you, but the greatness comes when you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valleys can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain." -- Richard Milhous Nixon "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Make big plans, aim high in hope and work." -- Daniel H. Burnham