"We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?"

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Greatness Quotes #Safety Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.”
“A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.227, Simon and Schuster
“The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.”

Source : William Robertson Smith, John Sutherland Black (1907). “Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series. The Fundamental Institutions”
“Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader”

Source : "Together with Business Studies XI". Book by Rachna Sagar (p. 225), 2016.
“We live in a time when people are afraid of beauty, because beauty passes; you can't hang on to it. And even if you see something or someone beautiful, the next time you hear it, it sounds different. So you can't cling to beauty; beauty passes and when that passes, you realize you pass too, and you will die. And that's why people cry at a beautiful view, a beautiful lecture, a beautiful painting, a new baby.”
“You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7,000 to 8,000 fans for each team.”
“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.”
“Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.”

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