Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

Picabia, Francis

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

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

Booth, William

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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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No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

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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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Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Watson, James

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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.