Motivational Quotes

Greatness

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

- Hunt, Leigh

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

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.

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

Gardner, Edward

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

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What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

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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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No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Charles, Ray

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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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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

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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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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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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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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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