Quotes About Greatness

The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

Surely it is more honourable to do great things, than to speak or read great things!...When a Christian has one eye upon his book, the other should be looking up to heaven for a blessing upon what he reads.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Great men are the inspired (speaking and acting) texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

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

You don't want to be great to start anything like business or any other but you will become great once you started

The history of the world is but a biography of great men.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed.

Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.

Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

The Great Man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

It'd be crazy to be an all-time great in New York City. That's a dream come true.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.