Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Charles, Ray

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

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Booth, William

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I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

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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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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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Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

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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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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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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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