Quotes About Greatness

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

Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.

Greatness doesn't come from what you do, but from who you are.

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness

Remember that the subconscious mind has determined the success and wonderful achievements of all great scientific workers.

Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.

Success is never on discount! Greatness is never on sale! Greatness is never half off! It's all or nothing! It's all day, every day! Greatness is never on discount!

You can't be great if you don't feel great. Make exceptional health your #1 priority.

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don't sell a lot. But they're both great.

Trust me, do not try to cheapen things; great affairs are badly done with small means.

so powerful is the influence of a truly great character on all that surrounds it.

Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shaksepeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.

Quanto a Bonaparte, mais uma vez impelido pelo destino para Paris, centro dos grandes acontecimentos, retomou a vida obscura e oculta que tanto lhe pesava.

Sans doute te demandes-tu si je ne suis pas aigri de n'en avoir écrit aucun. Eh bien, non! Mon talent a été de les bien lire et de les réunir. Notre monde manque plus de grands lecteurs que de grands écrivains, et composer une bibliothèque est un art qui tient de l'architecture.

In reality it is far less prejudicial to witness the immorality of the great than to witness that immorality which leads to greatness.

For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.

What one must fear, moreover, is not so much the sight of the immorality of the great as that of immorality leading to greatness.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

What frightens me most is the danger that, amid all the constant trivial preoccupations of private life, ambition may lose both its force and its greatness, that human passions may grow gentler and at the same time baser, with the result that the progress of the body social may become daily quieter and less aspiring.

We have not to seek to make ourselves like our progenitors, but to strive to work out that species of greatness and happiness which is our own.