<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436278" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Greatness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You want to be led to greatness.<br>You believe that it comes, <br>Without pain and sacrifice.<br>You perceive it to be a condition taught.<br>Something instructed or can be bought.<br>Something delivered upon your acceptance.<br>But no one known that is considered great...<br>Waited in anticipation to have it placed, <br>And presented on a plate as they safely ate! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Greatness isn't something someone takes.<br>Greatness is announced...<br>After someone has been trounced, <br>Through the trenches! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And 'remarkably' survives.<br>Surprising even the one who is stunned.<br>This was not a consideration, <br>In the mind of one who kept focused...<br>On what at the time, <br>Needed to be done! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And greatness was bestowed, <br>By what one did and showed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rising to heights, <br>Inspite of opposition! <br>And not submitting to a conformity, <br>That sits and seeks to be led! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Greatness is ahead of those, <br>Following! <br>Those feeding, <br>Upon wishes to be fed! <br>By that which has been left, <br>To nibble and taste...<br>From pioneering explorations! <br>In a desperation to succeed! <br>And most times discovered, <br>In disregard of danger! <br>In disregard...<br>Of blood one might bleed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436278" data-title="Greatness de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="You want to be led to greatness. You believe that it comes, Without pain and sacrifice. You perceive it to be a condition taught. Something instructed or can be bought. Something delivered upon your acceptance. But no one known that is considered..."></div> </div> </div>

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