Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Byron, Lord

Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Charles, Ray

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Renan, Ernest

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What millions died that Caesar might be great?