Motivational Quotes

Greatness

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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Best Quotes about Greatness

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Froude, James A.

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

Hazlitt, William

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.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Horace

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

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Truman, Harry S

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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No one ever became great by imitation.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Byron, Lord

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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.

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Great and good are seldom the same man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Charles, Ray

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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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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

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I want to be great, something special.

Leonard, Sugar Ray

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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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Great men always pay deference to greater.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Halsey, William F.

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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Nobody's ever the greatest anything.

Polak, Maralyn

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