Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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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Best Quotes about Greatness

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

What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Booth, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

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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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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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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Great men always pay deference to greater.