Quotes About Greatness

She did neither, but she remembered the scene, and gave the Professor her heartiest respect, for she knew it cost him an effort to speak out then and there, because his conscience would not let him be silent. She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will', then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.

Many men can be what the world calls great: very few men are what God calls good. This is the harder task to choose, yet the only success that satisfies, the only honor that outlives death.

talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will'

Many men can be what the world calls great: very few men are what God calls good.

If I die, don't take this too hard, she counseled them, death is only part of things bigger than we can imagine. Our brains are just starting the greatness, to learn how to do things like flying. What next? You will see, and you will see that your mother is of the design. And I will always be made of things, and things will always be made of me. Nothing can get rid of me because I am already included into the pattern.

when it came to the parallel economic upheavals of the period—the industrial revolution, the expansion of global trade, the growth of banks and stock exchanges—Hamilton was an American prophet without peer. No other founding father straddled both of these revolutions—only Franklin even came close—and therein lay Hamilton's novelty and greatness.

America is too great for small dreams.

Ahí reside nuestra grandeza: aun conociendo nuestra insignificancia, aspiramos al máximo. Lo que nos humaniza, lo que nos diferencia de los animales, es precisamente esa desfachatada ambición de ser felices. De controlar nuestras vidas y convertirnos en nuestros propios dioses.

Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides and leave Our dead on every shore.

They have no remembrance. They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter, and all is forgotten.

Why should one expect that a woman great in intellect should not love greatly, too?

above, far above, We don't know where we'll fall. Far above, far above, What once was great is rendered small.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do.

He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.

No, not one shall be forgotten who was great in the world. But each was great in his own way, and each in proportion to the greatness of that which he loved.

No one shall be forgotten who was great in this world; but everyone was great in his own way, and everyone in proportion to the greatness of what he loved.

greatness of that with which he strove. For he who strove with the world became great by overcoming the world, and he who strove with himself became great by overcoming himself, but he who strove with God became greater than all.

For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but what I do, and there is surely no one who thinks that anyone became great by winning the big lottery prize.

There was one who was great by reason of his power, and one who was great by reason of his wisdom, and one who was great by reason of his hope, and one who was great by reason of his love; but Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by reason of his hope whose form is madness, great by reason of the love which is hatred of oneself.

vivir así, alegre y feliz, instante tras instante, siempre en virtud del absurdo; ver constantemente pender la espada sobre la cabeza de la persona amada, y sin embargo no encontrar reposo en el dolor de la resignación sino gozo en virtud del absurdo. Quien es capaz de obrar así es grande de verdad, un hombre sin par (…)

There was one who was great in his strength, and one who was great in his wisdom, and one who was great in hope, and one who was great in love;

loved. For he who loved himself became great by himself, and he who loved other men became great by his selfless devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.