Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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

Best Quotes about Greatness

1.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Bowen, Elizabeth

2.

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

Syrus, Publilius

3.

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

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

6.

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

Gardner, Edward

7.

I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

8.

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

Rostand, Jean

9.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

12.

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

13.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

Darrow, Clarence

20.

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

Renan, Ernest

21.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

22.

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

23.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

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

26.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Campell, Joseph

30.

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

31.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Booth, William

34.

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

35.

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

Charles, Ray

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Watson, James

38.

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.

39.

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.

40.

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

Halsey, William F.

41.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Picabia, Francis

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

45.

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

46.

Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

47.

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

Hazlitt, William

48.

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

Hoffer, Eric

49.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

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