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  • No truly great person ever thought themselves so. -- William Hazlitt
  • If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. -- Robert H. Schuller
  • The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. -- Jean Baudrillard
  • You see, we're America the Beautiful, not "America Well At Least She Has A Great Personality". -- Stephen Colbert
  • Every great person educates themselves. -- Nas
  • Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • To be a great leader, first become a great person. -- Robin Sharma
  • A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. -- Jean de la Bruyere
  • I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with. -- Kurt Russell
  • A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. -- John Ruskin
  • Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise. -- J. R. D. Tata
  • If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead. -- Oswald Chambers
  • I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person -- Iker Casillas
  • What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also. -- Gary Carr
  • A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves. -- Harvey Mackay
  • Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit. -- Patricia Moyes
  • Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. -- John Ruskin
  • Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind. -- Henry Rollins
  • Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur. -- Janet Flanner
  • Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks. -- Ronald Reagan
  • Well, I came the second year. I mean I just fit right in. They wrote a great person and I'm so lucky that I got to be part of the family. -- Aida Turturro
  • I used to believe that if my career was going great, then I was not entitled to a great personal life. Well, I've stopped thinking that way. I believe I can have it all. -- Halle Berry
  • I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor. -- Abraham Verghese
  • Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great. -- Waylon Jennings
  • The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools -- Georg Brandes
  • I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician. -- Charlie Haden
  • As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis. -- Priscilla Presley
  • Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy are all worth reading. I wouldn't consider anyone truly politically literate if they hadn't given her work at least some study. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • I'm proud of myself. I could break and go get all this plastic surgery and get my nose fixed and get lipo or do whatever, but I haven't chosen to do that because I know I'm a great person. I'm pretty damn hot, if you ask me. -- Khloe Kardashian
  • The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • I got a certain type of respect in the streets, that's why they call me Tha Truth. And I gotta speak the truth. I gotta stand up for what's right. Every great person and true soldier has a great story to tell and this is a part of my story. -- Trae tha Truth
  • I'd love to have a lasting impact as far as growing the game. It would be cool to be remembered as a major champion. I'd like to be remembered as a great golfer but also a great person, as far as growing the game and charity work. The whole well-rounded athlete. -- Rickie Fowler
  • Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of great personalities, of men like Goethe ... who seem to forge their own destinies, who seem to move unhampered by those burdens of existence which keep most men from rising above the vicissitudes of their daily toil. -- John Carroll
  • Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three. -- Aristotle
  • The great person never loses a childlike spirit. -- Mencius
  • Paul Scholes. The best! Great player, person, friend! -- Gary Neville
  • I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Order is a great person's need and their true well being. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
  • Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great. -- John C. Maxwell
  • It's not about finding great people, it's about becoming a great person -- Mark Yarnell
  • No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person. -- Tim Kaine
  • Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person. -- Michael Scott
  • No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage. -- James Gibbons
  • It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead. -- Bill Hybels
  • To be a great business person, you must be a great observer. -- Ehab Atalla
  • A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • The truly great person is the one who gives you a chance. -- Paul Duffy
  • I think I have a great sense of me as a person. -- Chamique Holdsclaw
  • Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person -- Madonna Ciccone
  • A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley
  • The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. -- John Fowles
  • Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies. -- Jean Houston
  • The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength. -- Dorothy Height
  • The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person -- Edwin Land
  • Anyone with great ambition, great vision, and great passion can be a great person. -- Debasish Mridha
  • The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection. -- Francine Pascal
  • Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another. -- Sara Blecher
  • In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley
  • A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM. -- John Bevere
  • Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role. -- Jenna Fischer
  • She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
  • We are here to spend ourselves on others; for each person is a great treasure. -- Bryant H. McGill
  • Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general. -- Akeem Ayers
  • Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great. -- Dejan Stojanovic
  • God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others. -- Oswald Chambers
  • For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it. -- Robert Ballard
  • I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family. -- Monica Bellucci
  • Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts. -- Randall Wallace
  • A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets. -- John Ray
  • Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy. -- Brian Tracy
  • What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world. -- Franz Grillparzer
  • LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE? -- Louise Fitzhugh
  • A strong confident person can rule the room with knowledge, personal style, attitude and great posture. -- Cindy Ann Peterson
  • A person who has great wealth will still be unhappy if he hasn't also mastered gratitude! -- Zelig Pliskin
  • In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person. -- Curt Flood
  • A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something. -- Nick Woodman
  • Beautiful is a person whose outside and inside world are in great concord, camaraderie and joint concert. -- Anuj
  • I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist. -- Sonia Manzano
  • Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people. -- Steve Jobs
  • It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person. -- Concha Buika
  • I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal. -- Kenneth Koch
  • The secret to a really great friendship is just creating fun memories whenever you're with that person. -- Zendaya
  • Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person. -- Christie Brinkley
  • The most assured way of gaining maximum respect, is to permanently become a person of great honor. -- Edmond Mbiaka
  • I can be the most presidential person ever, other than possibly the great Abe Lincoln, all right? -- Donald Trump
  • Most customer service people are great. It's that one customer service person from hell that drives me crazy! -- Jon Jones
  • The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. -- Hafez
  • No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling. -- Justin Kirk
  • Whether I'm down or whether things are great, I try to stay the same person all the time. -- Torii Hunter
  • Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them. -- Warren G. Bennis
  • Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week. -- Sandra Bullock
  • It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better. -- Curtis Jackson
  • The best thing we can do for a young person is to expect a great deal from them. -- Gerald Chertavian
  • We are capable beyond measure. Go all out and be the great person, you are destiny to be. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • I'm a people person and I've met some great people along the way and made some great friends. -- Mike Mayhall
  • I am a person who has great respect for people, for my family, for the people of America. -- Donald Trump
  • Kathy Burgess describes [Hillary] Clinton as fun and an all-around great person but admits it doesn't come through well. -- Tamara Keith
  • It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate. -- Rick Derringer
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  • It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. -- Rita Rudner
  • No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. -- W. H. Auden
  • No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. -- Andrew Carnegie
  • Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today. -- Steve Maraboli
  • I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . . -- Harvey Pekar
  • To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great. -- Mark Twain
  • Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change. -- Brendon Burchard
  • Cacao has great nutritional value, a lot of protein, which strengthens a person, and without sugar it is not fattening. -- Samael Aun Weor
  • I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project. -- Linus Torvalds
  • You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems. -- Walt Disney
  • Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least. -- Dorothy Day
  • I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself. -- Manika
  • I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful. -- Kathleen Hanna
  • Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse. -- Joyce Carol Oates
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