Motivational Quotes

Greatness

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Greatness

1.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

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

Watson, James

3.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

6.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

7.

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

Byron, Lord

8.

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

Picabia, Francis

9.

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

10.

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

Ruskin, John

11.

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

12.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

13.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Rostand, Jean

22.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

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

Booth, William

25.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

26.

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.

27.

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.

28.

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

32.

Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

33.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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.

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

Halsey, William F.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Hoffer, Eric

40.

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

Darrow, Clarence

41.

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

42.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

Syrus, Publilius

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

47.

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

Gardner, Edward

48.

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

Charles, Ray

49.

No one ever became great by imitation.