Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Charles, Ray

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.

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

Halsey, William F.

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

Gardner, Edward

Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

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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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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

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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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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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No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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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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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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No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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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Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bowen, Elizabeth