Quotes About Greatness

Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)

Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority...for his admirers.

You read about people like you in myths and in the Lore, struggling with their gifts. But it's the struggle that brings greatness. If your powers came easily to you, without incident, you would never appreciate them as you should. And you would no' be a good leader because you would be impatient with others who did have to work hard. It never comes easy to the great warriors in history.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.

Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.

Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.

Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Don't tell me I can't do something. Don't tell me it's impossible. Don't tell me I'm not the greatest. I'm the double greatest.

Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.

Many say that (Pete) Sampras is the greatest player. But I say with all due respect to the rest, that he (Roger Federer) is the most complete player in the world so far.

In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?

Tutto ciò che di grande e bello c'è al mondo, gratta gratta, non è mai nato da un discorso razionale. Mai.

La misión de encontrar y destruir a nuestro propio ego nos acerca a la grandeza.

O percurso natural para se passar da nulidade à grandeza é esquecermo-nos de que somos um grama e sentirmos que somos a milionésima parte duma tonelada.