Quotes About Eminence

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.

We must not think of God as highest in an ascending order of beings starting with the single cell, then the fish, then the bird, then the animal, then man and angels and cherubs and God.… This would be to grant God eminence or even preeminence but that is not enough. We must grant God transcendence in the fullest meaning of that word. He's wholly other. He breaks all the categories of being and knowing.24

And here he was, the great one himself, scorching us all with his rays of glory.

There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

You will remember me for what I truly am: A God!

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Trademark yourself with the mark of excellence.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

Every great man is unique.

Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness.

ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be opened through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.

In the last generation, this country produced one of the most eminent men of science in the whole world. His name was quite unknown among us while he lived, and it is still unknown. Yet I may say without too great exaggeration that when I heard it mentioned in a professional assembly in the Netherlands two years ago, everybody got down under the table and touched their foreheads to the floor. His name was Josiah Willard Gibbs .

You are watching what greatness is all about.

I would love to get into the dictionary as synonymous with great quality and service.

The pleasures of love, then ... seem to be the only objects that can excite in you the desire of reigning; for in this respect it is in your power to attach yourselves to whatever object you find eminently beautiful.

The greatness of God!