Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

- Gardner, Edward

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

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.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Hazlitt, William

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

Booth, William

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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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Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

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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 be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Charles, Ray

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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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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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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

33.

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Rostand, Jean

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What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

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No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Halsey, William F.

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I want to be great, something special.