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

18.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

29.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

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

31.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

32.

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

33.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

34.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

35.

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

Watson, James

36.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

Hazlitt, William

42.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

45.

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

46.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Dane, Frank

47.

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

Renan, Ernest

48.

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

Horace

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.

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