Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Booth, William

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

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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.

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

Charles, Ray

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What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

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No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Gardner, Edward

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night]

Shakespeare, William

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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