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伟大
Greatness
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
对手段的无知可以造就伟大，但对目标的无知使其根本不可能伟大。
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
领导的任务不是让人们变得伟大，而是激发人们的伟大，因为伟大已经存在。
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
不要惧怕伟大:有些人生来伟大，有些人成就伟大，有些人被强加于伟大之上。
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
人的伟大之处在于他知道自己是不幸的。一棵树不知道自己是不幸的。
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
人的伟大之处在于他有能力去做，并能恰当地运用他的能力去做需要做的事情。
As human beings, our greatness is not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.
作为人类，我们的伟大不在于能够改造世界，而在于能够改造我们自己。
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
在生活中，我们会发现有许多伟人，也有一些好人，但又伟大又善良的人却寥寥无几。
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
在你年轻的时候，你希望自己的伟大被认为是理所当然的;当你发现这是理所当然的，你就会感到不安。
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
除非你选择用它来做伟大的事情，否则你得到多少奖励或你拥有多少权力都没有关系。
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
世俗的快乐，如来自伟大、财富、荣誉和感官上的满足，比没有任何快乐都糟糕得多。
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
这是子孙后代的特权，使那些因追求伟大而分裂了整个时代的对手之间的事情变得正确。
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
一个人的伟大不在于他获得了多少财富，而在于他的正直和对周围人产生积极影响的能力。
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When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.
当我想到伟大的时候，我只知道塞纳。他是伟大的。
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
善良不在于伟大，而在于伟大在于善良。
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it .is greatness.
做必须做的事。这也许不是幸福，但却是伟大。
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
所有伟大的本质都是不精确的。
You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement.
你看，一个国家的伟大并不需要一个巨大的纪念碑让所有人都看到。它不是通往某个特定目的地的旅程，而是遵循一个不断改进、永无止境的过程的承诺。
I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness.
我想把事情做到最好。我想要伟大。