Greatness Quotes
Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.
Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.
There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
One of Nadal’s strengths is that he’s so humble, that he’s surprised at what he has achieved, and that he has never bought into his greatness.
For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.
I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.
Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.
Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.
Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it.
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.
The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.