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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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Best Quotes about Greatness

1.
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.

2.
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.

3.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Swift, Jonathan

4.
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

5.
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

6.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
Hazlitt, William

7.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

8.
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Horace

9.
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

10.
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
Halsey, William F.

11.
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

12.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Bowen, Elizabeth

13.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.
What millions died that Caesar might be great?
Campell, Joseph

15.
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Hoffer, Eric

16.
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Picabia, Francis

17.
Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
Shakespeare, William

18.
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

19.
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.
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

21.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Carlyle, Thomas

22.
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.
Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
Hitopadesa

24.
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.
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

26.
It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.
Watson, James

27.
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.

28.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
Baudrillard, Jean

29.
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

30.
Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Hunt, Leigh

32.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
Ruskin, John

33.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Landor, Walter Savage

35.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night]
Shakespeare, William

36.
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

37.
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
Byron, Lord

38.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
La Bruyere, Jean De

39.
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
La Fontaine, Jean De

40.
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.

41.
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
Renan, Ernest

42.
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

43.
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Syrus, Publilius

44.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Epictetus

45.
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

46.
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
Froude, James A.

47.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Montesquieu, Charles De

48.
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.

49.
Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
Disraeli, Benjamin


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