Quotes About Greatness

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

Only great men have great faults.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.