Quotes About Greatness

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

The peace of mind which permeates the saint's atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.

All men are great for they convey something through their deeds and while most of them do from their misdeeds!

One of the hallmarks of great men is that they never make us conscious of their presence, instead they dwelve into our unconscious state and transform into conscious being!

Luxuries and indulgences were distractions from true greatness, tawdry and ephemeral baubles that dissipated energy that could be directed toward more meaningful and durable accomplishments in the world around him.

Yes, and for all his bluster about making D'ni great again, he had forgotten precisely what it was that had made the D'ni extraordinary. The reason why their empire had lasted for so long. It was not their power, nor the fact that they had once ruled a million worlds, it was their restraint, their astonishing humility.

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Great people are those who make great effort to achieve innovative ideas against great opposition and great forces, and succeed in the shaping of history.

I never wanted to be famous; I only wanted to be great.

the gospel fills a husband's heart with a sense of his wife's greatness and potential, the glorious woman she is destined to become, and he learns to love her accordingly:

My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon.

If you truly want to be great, don't get caught up in what has been done before or who has done it.

I have a lot of respect for Shaq. He's one of the greatest NBA centers of all time.

I want to be great and I accept the challenge.

People know I was the last true champion.

There have been great champions in every generation.

I think about all the time how I'll be able to say that during my career, I played with the greatest players of my era. Hopefully, I'll be able to say I won championships with those players.

I love Charles Baudelaire. Him and Shakespeare are the only people I think are better than me.

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.