Greatness Quotes

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

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

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute...

Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all i...

For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.

The highest men are calm, silent and unknown...The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in ...

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty m...

But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a real...

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, ...

But there could be no doubt that greatness was seated within; greatness was passing, hidden, down Bo...

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter....

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

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

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his...

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities...

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

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatnes...

Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded tha...

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar...

I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatn...

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do...

The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is...

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful Germany will claim me as a German and France will ...

One can build the Empire State Building discipline the Prussian army make a state hierarchy mighti...

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

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...

Enlightenment is the transforming process that makes one kind, happy, and compassionate to the world...

Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insens...

If you want to know your true opinion of someone watch the effect produced in you by the first sigh...

It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man--almost rarer--who is gr...

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But b...

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they ...

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they ...

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must b...

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulate...

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulate...

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulate...

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulate...

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulate...

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulate...

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulate...

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulate...

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accompli...

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not de...

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

Sir Leicester is generally in a complacent state, and rarely bored. When he has nothing else to do, ...

He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true s...

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a stron...

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined...

Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I ...

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars,Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,Or wither'd ...

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

The firstsign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and actgreat. Before you can call ...

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

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftie...

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn ...

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be g...

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-makin...

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst b...

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

How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pa...

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

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman,...

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, how...

Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there...

You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longe...

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.

A great ship asks deep water.

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will...

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried t...

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually...

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that ...

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their compan...

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as...

There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and c...

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is...