Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

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.

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

Gardner, Edward

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

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

Booth, William

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

Ruskin, John

18.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

Charles, Ray

25.

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

Picabia, Francis

26.

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

Horace

28.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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

Syrus, Publilius

32.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Watson, James

37.

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.

38.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

42.

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

Byron, Lord

43.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Dylan, Bob

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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

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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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No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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