Greatness Quotes

68 quotations about Greatness
The first step toward greatness is to be honest.
Proverb · Greatness
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
Ernest Renan · Greatness
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand · Greatness
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin · Greatness
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer · Greatness
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Seneca · Greatness
He is not great who is not greatly good.
William Shakespeare · Greatness
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
William Shakespeare · Greatness
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Sydney Smith · Greatness
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Jonathan Swift · Greatness
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Publilius Syrus · Greatness
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
Count Leo Tolstoy · Greatness
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
Harry S Truman · Greatness
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
Source Unknown · Greatness
It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.
James Watson · Greatness
All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey · Greatness
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
Brigham Young · Greatness
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Edward Young · Greatness

Authors on Greatness

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