Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Greatness

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

Ruskin, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

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

Charles, Ray

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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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No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

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What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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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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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Gardner, Edward

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Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

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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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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Byron, Lord

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Dylan, Bob

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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.