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“A great man is always willing to be little.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

tags: abilities, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, feminist, gender, greatness, human-nature, husbands, hypocrisy, integrity, men, men-and-women, misogyny, penina-mezei, skills, stereotypes, strong, wives, women

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“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

tags: greatness, leadership, priorities

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“Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”
― Dolly Parton

tags: diamonds, excellence, greatness, individuality

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“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, & Being Free

tags: fearless, greatness, inspirational, life, motivational, purpose-of-life, self-empowerment, success

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