Quotes About Greatness

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.