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Otheresteem is--quite simply--a word to describe the view you have of another person. Even more, the feeling that view brings out in you. The value you can find in that person. Otheresteem is high when you like what you see in the other, both in the present and the imaginable future. You find that person to be capable of improvement, worthy of it.

Monica Diaz
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If you would create something, you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : German philosopher, scientist & writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
 
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Henry Ward Beecher : American preacher, speaker & writer
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
 
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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : German philosopher, scientist & writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
 
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Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

William Shirley
 
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Simone Weil (1909 - 1943)
 
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Aristotle : Greek philosopher, student of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great
Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
 
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Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Paul Tsongas
 
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Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Wilma Rudolph
 
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Thomas Carlyle : Scottish essayist, historian & philosopher
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
 
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Blaise Pascal : French scientist, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, moralist & writer
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
 
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Kahlil Gibran : Lebanese mystical poet, philosopher & painter
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
 
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It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

Meir Kahane
 
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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

Charles Simmons (1924 - )
 
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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Amelia Barr
 
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Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

James Robinson
 
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Henry Ward Beecher : American preacher, speaker & writer
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
 
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.

Matthew Arnold : English poet & critic
Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)
 
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : English romantic poet & critic
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
 
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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater (1882 - 1937)
 
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Robert Kennedy
 
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Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Stanislaw Lem
 
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As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

Ernst Fischer
 
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

"Mahatma" Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : Indian spiritual and political leader, called Mahatma "great soul"
Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
 
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

James Cooper
 
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
 
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Some things have not changed since the dawn of history, and bid fair to last out time itself. One of these things is the capacity for greatness in man—his capacity for being often the master of the event —and sometimes even more—the changer of the course of history itself. This capacity for greatness is a very precious gift, and we are under a danger in our day of stifling it.

William de Vane
 
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A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe.

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

Bertrand Arthur William Russell : British philosopher, mathematician & social reformer
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
 
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Recipe for greatness — To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great.

Zane Grey (1875 - 1939)
 
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 - 1881)
 
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