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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Small, Minds, Ideas

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Minds, Opposition, Violent

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

Greatness, Born, Achieve

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Small, Valley, Peak

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

Hope, Freedom, Simple

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Muhammad Ali

Greatest, Before, Said

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

Good, Heart, Greatest

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Sigmund Freud

Woman, Soul, Able

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou

Story, Inside, Greater

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I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
Cyrano de Bergerac

Alone, May, Perhaps

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

Time, Greatest, Fail

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother Teresa

Greatest, Nobody, Anybody

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller

Long, Small, Duty

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain

Control, Greater, Laws

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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Chanakya

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy

Fail, Achieve, Dare

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts, Truly, Walking

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

After, Climb, Climbing

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
John F. Kennedy

Fail, Achieve, Dare

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey

Change, Time, Attitude

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates

Live, Greatest, Honor

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

Good, Teacher, Superior

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men, Night, While

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau

Through, Eyes, Place

Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu

Love, Courageous

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