Quotes About Greatness

No greatness without goodness.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Trenér Vigil se tedy pokoušel najít odpov?? na hlavní otázku: Byl Zátopek velký ?lov?k, který navíc náhodou b?hal, nebo byl takový, protože b?hal?

in another era the same behavior that is now throttled with Ritalin and disciplinary rap sheets would have been the mark of greatness, the early blooming of a true champion.

that's okay; humans are terrific

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. -- On Calvin Coolidge

Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great orators, great soldiers, great lawyers, often use their gifts for a most unholy cause. We meet to pay a tribute of love and respect to Robert G. Ingersoll because he used his matchless power for the good of man. {Darrow's eulogy for Ingersoll at his funeral}

I was now so much greater that I could no longer see myself. As great as a far-off landscape. I was far off. But perceptible in my furthest mountains and in my remotest rivers: the simultaneous present no longer scared me, and in the furthest extremity of me I could finally smile without even smiling. At last I was stretching beyond my sensibility.

Como posso amar a grandeza do mundo se não posso amar o tamanho da minha natureza?

E eu não fora grande bastante: só os grandes amam a monotonia.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. —Steve Jobs

Greatness is always achieved by superiority, which can be represented by minority or inferiority.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Los grandes resultados requieren grandes ambiciones" (Heráclito)

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

Perhaps this book will help my fellow countrymen remember that it is through the sum of daring individual actions that this nation has risen above all others and that our greatness comes only from the free interplay of singular wills.

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks

It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

The multitude," Cavendish says, "is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down--for the novelty of the thing.

It is not written that great men shall be happy men.

The multitude," Cavendish says, "is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down—for the novelty of the thing.

The multitude is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down - for the novelty of the thing.

So many words,' Gregory says. 'So many words and oaths and deeds, that when folk read of them in time to come they will hardly believe such a man as Lord Cromwell walked the earth. You do everything. You have everything. You are everything. So I beg you, grant me an inch of your broad earth, Father, and leave my wife to me.