Quotes About Greatness

Todo momento grande y exigente que se produce en los anales del mundo es el triunfo de algún entusiasmo. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

It was a great thing,—a very great thing;—he had no hesitation in saying that it was one of the greatest things out.  He didn't believe a greater thing had ever come out.

He loved his country dearly, and wished her to be, as he believed her to be, first among nations. But he had no belief in perpetuating her greatness by any grand improvements. Let things take their way naturally, — with a slight direction hither or thither as things might require. That was his method of ruling. He believed in men rather than measures.

At times all I would need is a single word, a simple little word of no importance, to be great, to speak in the voice of the prophets; a word of witness, a precise word, a subtle word, a word well steeped in my marrow, gone out of me, which would stand at the other limit of my being and which, for everyone else, would be nothing.

He required that she learn by heart certain passages from 'Self-Reliance.' 'Let us bow and apologize never more. A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me... A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things... Let a man then know his own worth and keep things under his feet.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

The proud man, then, is an extreme in respect of the greatness of his claims, but a mean in respect of the rightness of them; for he claims what is accordance with his merits, while the others go to excess or fall short.

Pride, then, seems to be a sort of crown of the virtues; for it makes them greater, and it is not found without them. Therefore it is hard to be truly proud; for it is impossible without nobility and goodness of character.

The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.

There may be something of the amateur in all great artists.

Greatness no longer matters. We see now that each human being who dies in the center of a universe: a unique spark of hope and despair, hate and love, going alone into the greater darkness.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Nothing is little to a great mind.

Nulla è piccolo per una grande mente, sentenziò Holmes.

Nada es pequeño para una inteligencia grande.

and consequently, while I can never be sentimental, I can never be great

The supernatural greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

All mediocrity flies from the light.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Había nacido para ser grande, porque era capaz de proyectar lo que otros hombres no se atrevían a llevar a cabo, y de llevar a cabo lo que otros hombres no se atrevían a proyectar. El caso de Lady Sannox

CORO Molte potenze sono tremende ma nessuna lo è più dell'uomo.»