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Jai Ganesh

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Great Qoutes

Great Quotes

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

2. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent Van Gogh

3. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5. The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

10. 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

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

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

13. The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. - Plato

14. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. - Leo Tolstoy

15. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. - George Bernard Shaw

16. The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

19. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. - Theodore Roosevelt

20. And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. - Homer

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

22. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. - Abraham Lincoln

23. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

24. There is no great genius without some touch of madness. - Aristotle

25. If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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