Greatness
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
- Pascal, Blaise
- Pascal, Blaise
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
- Halsey, William F.
- Halsey, William F.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
- Ruskin, John
- Ruskin, John
The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
- Whitman, Walt
- Whitman, Walt
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
- Seneca
- Seneca
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
- La Fontaine, Jean De
- La Fontaine, Jean De
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
- Robbins, Anthony
- Robbins, Anthony
The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
- Daniel J. Boorstin
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.
- Asquith, Margot
- Asquith, Margot
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
- Fischer, Ernst
- Fischer, Ernst
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
- La Bruyere, Jean De
- La Bruyere, Jean De
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
- Renan, Ernest
- Renan, Ernest
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
- Seneca
- Seneca
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
- Hazlitt, William
- Hazlitt, William
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
- Aleister Crowley
- Aleister Crowley
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.
- Boorstin, Daniel J.
- Boorstin, Daniel J.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
- Wilfred A. Peterson
- Wilfred A. Peterson


















