Motivational Quotes

Greatness

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Greatness

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

Picabia, Francis

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night]

Shakespeare, William

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

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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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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

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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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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Charles, Ray

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

Halsey, William F.

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

Renan, Ernest

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Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Booth, William

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

Byron, Lord

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Syrus, Publilius

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False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Rostand, Jean

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Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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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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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Watson, James

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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Gardner, Edward

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.