Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Greatness

1.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

2.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

3.

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

Rostand, Jean

4.

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

5.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

6.

I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

7.

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

8.

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

Picabia, Francis

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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.

11.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

12.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Horace

14.

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

Byron, Lord

15.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

16.

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

17.

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

Hazlitt, William

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

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

Swift, Jonathan

20.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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

22.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

23.

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

24.

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

25.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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.

29.

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

Charles, Ray

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

39.

It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.

Watson, James

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Renan, Ernest

43.

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

Darrow, Clarence

44.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

45.

Nobody's ever the greatest anything.