Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Halsey, William F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

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.

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

Gardner, Edward

11.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

12.

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.

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

16.

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

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Swift, Jonathan

26.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

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

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Charles, Ray

29.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

30.

I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

31.

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.

32.

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

Watson, James

33.

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

Darrow, Clarence

34.

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

35.

Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

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

Renan, Ernest

37.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

38.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Horace

43.

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

Syrus, Publilius

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

47.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

48.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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