Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

Watson, James

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

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.

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.

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

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

Picabia, Francis

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

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

Halsey, William F.

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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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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Renan, Ernest

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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Rostand, Jean

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Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean 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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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.

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No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

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

Gardner, Edward

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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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Dylan, Bob

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No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Booth, William