When I read great literature great drama speeches or sermons I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
Great men are those who have had noble purposes to achieve great tasks to perform or mighty causes to vindicate. A high expression of self-mastery is but the reflection of these great purposes upon personality and character. The demand upon character molds the essential self-mastery; the goal forges the strength needed to achieve it…. In your reading you have probably found the oft-repeated syllogism: ?Great minds have purposes others have wishes.? … Great purposes demand and endow strong minds; wishes need only weak minds. The soundness of this principle is found in the fact that men are not great until they have achieved great things. The strength is the product of the struggle; the endowment follows the achievement. Nature never pays an unearned account; and she never fails to pay one that is earned. In fact earning is possessing; the two processes are simultaneous.
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when youre really tested when you take some knocks some disappointments when sadness comes. Because only if youve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Its hard to be humble when youre as great as I am.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurants revolving door.
When I read great literature great drama speeches or sermons I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
Great men are those who have had noble purposes to achieve great tasks to perform or mighty causes to vindicate. A high expression of self-mastery is but the reflection of these great purposes upon personality and character. The demand upon character molds the essential self-mastery; the goal forges the strength needed to achieve it…. In your reading you have probably found the oft-repeated syllogism: ?Great minds have purposes others have wishes.? … Great purposes demand and endow strong minds; wishes need only weak minds. The soundness of this principle is found in the fact that men are not great until they have achieved great things. The strength is the product of the struggle; the endowment follows the achievement. Nature never pays an unearned account; and she never fails to pay one that is earned. In fact earning is possessing; the two processes are simultaneous.
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when youre really tested when you take some knocks some disappointments when sadness comes. Because only if youve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.