Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Renan, Ernest

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

No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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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.

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

Watson, James

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

Rostand, Jean

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Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

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

Gardner, Edward

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Picabia, Francis

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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

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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 and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Booth, William

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Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

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