Greatness Quotes

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

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer...

That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the c...

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his...

...I say to you, without pleasure, that this son of ours will be a great man, because -- well -- bec...

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the...

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

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to ou...

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, t...

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatne...

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

And here we go creating great men out of artisans who happened to have stumbled on a way to improve ...

No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the worl...

So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this ...

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional ...

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but wh...

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, w...

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

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and ...

Calmness is always Godlike.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the reall...

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civ...

But what is great can only begin great.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...

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

You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.

I think America is in trouble, but it's not beyond repair. But it's going to take leadership who see...

Impossible is nothing.

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

I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know ...

A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have bee...

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can ch...

The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- "happiness." He wh...

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your ...

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will ...

The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the...

A great man is always willing to be little.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and ...

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers ...

Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misu...

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an ar...

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and ...

No man ever yet became great by imitation.

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on...

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought...

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

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

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

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...

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

He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devot...

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

The difference between a fairly interesting writer and a fascinating writer is that the fascinating ...

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.