Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

Best Quotes about Greatness

1.

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

Rostand, Jean

2.

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

Gardner, Edward

3.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

4.

Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

6.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Ruskin, John

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

12.

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

13.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

16.

There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.

Halsey, William F.

17.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

18.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

19.

What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

20.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Hazlitt, William

21.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

22.

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

23.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

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

Picabia, Francis

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

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.

27.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

28.

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.

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

33.

Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

34.

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

Charles, Ray

35.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

Swift, Jonathan

37.

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

38.

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

39.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

40.

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

41.

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

Syrus, Publilius

42.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

43.

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

44.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Baudrillard, Jean

45.

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

Darrow, Clarence

46.

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

47.

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

Booth, William

48.

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

Byron, Lord

49.

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

50.

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.