Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Greatness

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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.

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

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

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.

I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Halsey, William F.

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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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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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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

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

Booth, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

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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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Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Byron, Lord

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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