Quotes About Eminence

Greatness begins where mediocrity ends.

Nobody could have put her in the shade, blown out her light that evening; she was too evidently shining.

The last great Englishman is low.

There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals.

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Tobias Hawthorne. Even dead, he was larger than life.

Prize intensity more than extensity. Perfection resides in quality, not quantity. Extent alone never rises above mediocrity, and it is the misfortune of men with wide general interests that while they would like to have their finger in every pie, they have one in none. Intensity gives eminence, and rises to the heroic in matters sublime. (Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658)

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

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

Mediocrity does not befit your true magnitude.

Diplomatic eminences often natter on about preventive action, making the obvious point that it's better to cure festering ills before they metastasize into something much worse.

Qwilleran closed the door and turned to Koko. 'How did you react to the noisy oaf?' Koko laid his ears back. Qwilleran thought, No one has ever called him kitty. A more appropriate form of address would be Your Excellency or Your Eminence.

His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. . . Murder kills only the individual - and, after all, what is an individual?

I know. But that is all the more reason for severity. His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual-- and, after all, what is an individual?

Last name ever first name greatest

I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

Charles Talent Manx the Third at your service, my dear! CEO of Christmasland Enterprises, director of Christmasland Entertainment, president of fun! Also His Eminence, the King Shit of Turd Hill, although it doesn't say that on my card.

The things that are more excellent.

Powerful men do not necessarily make the most eminent travelers; it is rather those who take the most interest in their work that succeed the best; as a huntsman says, "It is the nose that gives speed to the hound.

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.