Quotes About Greatness

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

To be simple is to be great.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.

Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.

Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

Great men are not always wise.

Let me be big in little things...

Ne treba mene žaliti. Jer svi mi umiremo samo jednom, a veliki ljudi po dva puta; jednom kad ih nestane sa zemlje, a drugi put kad propadne njihova zadužbina.

A most je i dalje stajao, onakav kakav je oduvek bio, sa svojom ve?itom mladoš?u savršene zamisli i dobrih i velikih ljudskih dela koja ne znaju šta je starenje ni promena i koja, bar tako izgleda, ne dele sudbinu prolaznih stvari ovoga sveta.

Bana hiç ac?may?n… Biz, s?radan insanlar, yaln?z bir sefer ölürüz. Ama büyük adamlar iki sefer ölürler. Birinci sefer bu dünyay? b?rak?p göçtükleri, ikinci sefer de b?rakt?klar? eserler, y?k?l?p kayboldu?u zaman.

There is no need to feel sorry for me. For all of us die only once, whereas great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their lifework disappears.

Možda revolucije ra?aju ?udovišta? -Jeste, ali one se za?inju u veli?ini i moralnoj ?istoti, ali ra?aju ?udovišta.

Na ovoj zemlji ne može biti dobrote bez mržnje ni veli?ine bez zavisti, kao što nema ni najmanjeg predmeta bez senke.

all of us die only once, whereas great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their lifework disappears.

Within him wrestled invisibly many contrary and irreconcilable feelings, especially the contrast between the greatness that he felt in his soul and the misery and weakness of what he was able to express and reveal before others.

perché siamo qui? - Non so cosa dire. Siamo qui per lo stesso motivo per cui ci sono tutti gli altri. Abbiamo avuto la possibilità di vivere e l'abbiamo accettata. È una gran cosa vivere. La più grande di tutte.