Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

- Watson, James

Best Quotes about Greatness

1.

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

Darrow, Clarence

2.

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

Booth, William

3.

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

4.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

5.

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

Renan, Ernest

6.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

7.

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.

8.

I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

9.

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

Charles, Ray

10.

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

Horace

11.

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.

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Watson, James

14.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Rostand, Jean

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

20.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

21.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

22.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

24.

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

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

Ruskin, John

26.

Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

30.

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

31.

What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

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

Gardner, Edward

35.

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

36.

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

Byron, Lord

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

40.

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

Swift, Jonathan

41.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

42.

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

Picabia, Francis

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Halsey, William F.

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

49.

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

Shakespeare, William

50.

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

Hazlitt, William