Quotes About Greatness

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

I do believe he's the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he's one of the greatest men I've ever met.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.

How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

economic—when economic security and basic materialistic needs are guaranteed to all—then incentive will not disappear, but be of a different sort, increasing in strength and determination, producing true greatness, not the kind of transparent, transient "greatness" which present incentives produce.