Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Greatness

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Halsey, William F.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Booth, William

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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Charles, Ray

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

Gardner, Edward

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

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I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

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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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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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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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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.