Quotes About Greatness

Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Él era una mezcla de príncipe y bandido que se creía ungido para ser el amo del mundo, que fue oscureciendo su alma en guerras salvajes, resbalando a la infamia casi sin darse cuenta, pero que tenía en su corazón suficiente valor y tal vez demasiada grandeza para resignarse a ser un canalla.

The moment of a fall from greatness often comes just when a people and a nation feel most secure. The cry the barbarians are at the gates too often comes as a terrifying bolt out of the blue, which is often the last cry ever heard.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without (15) The illness should attend it.

So farewell to the little good you bear me Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!

The great assay of art, but at his touch— Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand—

Nature might stand up      And say to all the world, 'This was a man!

Why, 'Some are born great, some achieve great-   ness, and some have greatness thrown upon them.

That vulture in you to devour so many As will to greatness dedicate themselves, Finding it so inclined.

Antony shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' th' posture of a whore.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-- the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

Resposibility is the price of greatness.

fulfillment is always murky, insufficiently clear, devoid of the greatness and purity of the undertaking.

The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.

It seemed like I was surrounded by great and wonderful people unstable as uranium.

Caesar and The Honeymooners—two very different great comedians, Sid and Jackie Gleason.

Nil magnum nisi bonum. No greatness without goodness.