Quotes About Greatness

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Simon had the awesome charisma of one who was born for greatness; if accompanied by the detestable arrogance of one who knew it.

Prejudice walking to and fro in flesh and blood is my horror, and, alas, a phenomenon so common; and people plume themselves so much upon their prejudices, as signs of decision of character and greatness of mind, nay, of true patriotism; and all the while they are simply the product of narrowness of intellect, and narrowness of heart.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

6Do not attempt to give the Holy Spirit what He does not ask, or you will add the ego unto Him and confuse the two. 7He asks but little. 8It is He Who adds the greatness and the might. 9He joins with you to make the holy instant far greater than you can understand. 10It is your realization that you need do so little that enables Him to give so much.

The Yeltsin years considerably lowered the bar [of public expectations] for the country's next leader: Putin's specific policies and actions arguably matter far less than his reassuring symbolic function as "a real man" who can husband the nation's resources and promise a return to greatness. (2007: 227)

Qué grandes son las cosas en los comienzos! Nunca en los principios hubo pequeñeces...

Your playing small does not serve the world," said Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech. "Who are you not to be great?

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.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

Great men are the 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.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men. The people who can catch hold of men's minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history. . . . those who stir feelings and imagination and make men struggle toward perfection.

The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.

Russian rulers appealed to their people on the basis of their endurance, not their greatness. Russian diplomacy relied, to an extraordinary extent, on superior power. Russia rarely had allies among countries where it had not stationed military forces. Russian diplomacy tended to be power-oriented, tenaciously holding on to fixed positions and transforming foreign policy into trench warfare.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.