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Quotes About Greatness

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
~ Seneca the Younger
The great man is always the man of mighty effort.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
~ Thomas Carlyle
No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
~ Walter Savage Landor
It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
~ John Webster
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
~ Denis Diderot
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
~ Francois Truffaut
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.
~ George Santayana
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.
~ Lucan
Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.
~ Mark Twain
Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.
~ Matthew Henry
Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man is one sentence.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.
~ Elbert Hubbard
None but great men are capable of having great flaws.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
~ Mencius
It is the success which makes great men.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
~ Saint Augustine
To Sachin, the man we all want to be.
~ Andrew Symonds
The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.
~ Arthur Penrhyn Stanley