Greatness Quotes

68 quotations about Greatness
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Greatness
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Greatness
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Greatness
No great thing is created suddenly.
Epictetus · Greatness
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin · Greatness
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
James A. Froude · Greatness
It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
Edward Gardner · Greatness
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
William F. Halsey · Greatness
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
George Herbert · Greatness
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson · Greatness
Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
Hitopadesa · Greatness
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Eric Hoffer · Greatness
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Leigh Hunt · Greatness
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
Samuel Johnson · Greatness
No one ever became great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson · Greatness
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
Samuel Johnson · Greatness
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
Jean De La Bruyere · Greatness
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
Jean De La Fontaine · Greatness
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld · Greatness
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor · Greatness
I want to be great, something special.
Sugar Ray Leonard · Greatness
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln · Greatness
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Charles De Montesquieu · Greatness
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Francis Picabia · Greatness
Nobody's ever the greatest anything.
Maralyn Polak · Greatness

Authors on Greatness

James Allen Matthew Arnold Bible Napoleon Bonaparte William Booth Edmund Burke Lord Byron Joseph Campell Albert Camus Thomas Carlyle Ray Charles Winston Churchill Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frank Dane Clarence Darrow Charles Dickens Benjamin Disraeli Ralph Waldo Emerson Epictetus Benjamin Franklin