Søren Kierkegaard quote about greatness from Fear and Trembling - For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do, and there is surely no one who thinks that a man became great because he won the great prize in the lottery.
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“ For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do, and there is surely no one who thinks that a man became great because he won the great prize in the lottery. ”
 Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (1843). copy citation

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Author Søren Kierkegaard
Source Fear and Trembling
Topic greatness action circumstance
Date 1843
Language English
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Note Translated by Walter Lowrie
Weblink https://archive.org/stream/fear-and-trembling-johannes-de-silentio_20150...

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Søren Kierkegaard quote about greatness from Fear and Trembling - For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do, and there is surely no one who thinks that a man became great because he won the great prize in the lottery.
Søren Kierkegaard quote about greatness from Fear and Trembling - For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do, and there is surely no one who thinks that a man became great because he won the great prize in the lottery.