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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

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.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Great things are won by great dangers.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.