Best Quotes about Greatness
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
Halsey, William F.
He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On Calvin Coolidge]
Darrow, Clarence
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Horace
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
Renan, Ernest
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
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Picabia, Francis
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
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Carlyle, Thomas
Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Montesquieu, Charles De
Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
Shakespeare, William
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
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
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
La Bruyere, Jean De
It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
Gardner, Edward
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
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
Hazlitt, William
What millions died that Caesar might be great?
Campell, Joseph
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.
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
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
I want to be great, something special.
Leonard, Sugar Ray
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
Tolstoy, Count Leo
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Hoffer, Eric
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Hunt, Leigh
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Syrus, Publilius
No one ever became great by imitation.
Johnson, Samuel
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.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night]
Shakespeare, William
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
Byron, Lord
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
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Franklin, Benjamin
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
Ruskin, John
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
Baudrillard, Jean
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.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Swift, Jonathan
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Rostand, Jean
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
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.
Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
Dane, Frank
Nobody's ever the greatest anything.
Polak, Maralyn
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.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Landor, Walter Savage
All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
Winfrey, Oprah
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