Quotes About Greatness

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men

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

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

The greatness of a man is only measured by his urologist.

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.