J. G. Holland: Every man who can be a first-rate something - as every man can be who is a man…
Every man who can be a first-rate something - as every man can be who is a man at all - has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.
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- Just as you can never hold greatness down, you can never raise anything or anyone up by being mediocre.
- Make sure that what YOU need from people, does not hinder you from receiving the BEST from them.
- Your level of greatness is attached to the greatness of your habits.
- With all Greatness comes eccentricity that will either enhance the Greatness or nullify the effective use of it.
- Your sense of self-worth should not come from the chance of your birth, but from the things you accomplish. You cannot be born great, you can only become great.
- No noble task was ever easy.