Quotes About Greatness

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.

Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed.

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.