greatness

1.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

- Pascal, Blaise

2.

There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.

- Halsey, William F.

3.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

- Ruskin, John

4.

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

5.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

- Seneca

6.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

8.

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

9.

The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

- Adolf Hitler

10.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

11.

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

12.

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

13.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

- Fischer, Ernst

14.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

- Renan, Ernest

16.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

- Seneca

17.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

- Hazlitt, William

18.

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

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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.

20.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

- Wilfred A. Peterson