Motivational Quotes

Greatness

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Greatness

What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.

Miller, Henry

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Hoffer, Eric

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

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Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer --the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

Taylor, A. J. P.

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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

Byron, Lord

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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

Brooks, Phillips

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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.

Gardner, Edward

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After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in school.

Hubbard, Kin

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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Forster, Edward M.

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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Swift, Jonathan

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Plato

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

Ruskin, John

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Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On Calvin Coolidge]

Darrow, Clarence

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

Mcgovern, George

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A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.

Watson, James

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Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Horace

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No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is not difficult to get away into retirement; and there live upon your own convictions; nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions; but to enter into the world; and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience; that is Christian greatness.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, Imean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck.

Duritz, Adam

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Hugo, Victor

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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

Donne, John

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Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.