Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Greatness

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Horace

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.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Byron, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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

Booth, William

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

Watson, James

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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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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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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 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

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What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Charles, Ray

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