Motivational Quotes

Greatness

What millions died that Caesar might be great?

- Campell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Truman, Harry S

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Halsey, William F.

12.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

15.

What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

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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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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

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

22.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Gardner, Edward

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Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

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

Charles, Ray

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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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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

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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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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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.

46.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Picabia, Francis

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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.

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth