Greatness Quotes

None think the great unhappy but the great.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Alexander Chase

When you're as great as I am it's hard to be humble.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Alexander the Great

If my theory of relativity is proven successful Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Albert Einstein

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

T.S Eliot

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

Josi Ortega y Gasset

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

The biggest dog has been a pup.

There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

No man ever yet became great by imitation.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

La Rochefoucauld

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

Jean de La Bruyère

Some are born great some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

William Shakespeare

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Only great men may have great faults.

Each honest calling each walk of life has its own elite its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

James Bryant Conant

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be.

Adlai Stevenson

Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Some are born great some achieve greatness and some hire public relations officers.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A great ship asks deep water.

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

Walter Savage Landor

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

Stephen Spender

If I am a great man then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.

Bonar Law

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

William Henry Hudson

Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time.

The greatest truths are the simplest and so are the greatest men.

J. C. and A . W. Hare

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism pride hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

Charles de Gaulle

Few great men could pass Personnel.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A white wall is the fool's paper.

Calmness is always Godlike.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .

Anonymous

We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

Winston Churchill

To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

Herbert Asquith

If you want to know your true opinion of someone watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.

John Stuart Mill

One can build the Empire State Building discipline the Prussian army make a state hierarchy mightier than God yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Focus on your potential not your past.

You can, if you believe you can.

Manifest of souls;Adventurous soul,Enthusiastic soul, Sound soul,Happy soul,Great soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every child should be nurture with great love. The feeling of great love promotes wellness and potential for greatness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Opportunity has got numerous appointments to keep, so it can't be held to ransom at your doorstep. Just a knock is enough for a man who is alert and expectant!

Osho Samuel Adetunji

If I learned something it was the ride of life, it is fun and crazy.

Never settle; if it doesn't feel right, it's not suppose to.

Borrow my eyes so you may see your greatness and recognize the gifts that you were uniquely placed on this planet to learn from, to share, and to teach.

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