Motivational Quotes

Greatness

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

- Hunt, Leigh

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

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

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

Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

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Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

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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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No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Charles, Ray

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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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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gardner, Edward

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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Renan, Ernest

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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Byron, Lord

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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