Commitment to great causes makes great men.

 

Commitment to great causes makes great men.
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"A Time for Moral Courage", Reader’s Digest (July 1964)
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Reprinted in The Virgin Island Daily News Oct 29, 1964 with the permission of Reader's Digest

 

Billy Graham (preacher)

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I find it very hard to accept the wonderful things in my life. My life really is great: I do exactly what I want to do for a living, I have a wonderful person to share my life with, I have a great family, I have great friends. But somehow there’s a void. I’m the last person who should be complaining or wondering why I’m perpetually unhappy. I would like to think that my lack of contentment is part of what makes my work the way it is, and for the better.
I would rather make great records than make great relationships. When I’m at odds with myself, I would rather f**k up every relationship I’ve ever been in and write great records. And not because I need a breakup to provide me with material. Not like that.

 

Ben Gibbard

 

Roosevelt was a great personality, a great activist, a great preacher of the moralities, a great controversialist, a great showman. He dominated his era as he dominated conversations ... the masses loved him; he proved to be a great popular idol and a great vote getter.

 

Theodore Roosevelt

 

I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds and forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages-- and love affairs, as well-- is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them rather than taking away.

 

Merle Shain

 

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

 

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 

The minister is to be a live man, a real man, a true man, a simple man, great in his love, great in his life, great in his work, great in his simplicity, great in his gentleness.

 

John (Presbyterian pastor) Hall