Quotes About Greatness

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

No man is so great as mankind.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--