Quotes About Greatness

When you are in the company of greatness, there is only one thing to do: to raise your game.

I beat Randy Orton, one of the all-time greats, you know. Why can't I beat a Brock Lesnar?

There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great.

Being in the same sentence as Bob Gibson, that's incredible.

If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.

I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

I'd definitely like to be one of the best golfers in the world, of all time.

It's not a problem to be great and do good things.

Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

In studying the character and works of a great man, it is always desirable to learn in what he is distinguished from others, and what have been the causes if this difference.

They were great in their day and generation.

In all my interviews with Mr. Lincoln I was impressed with his entire freedom from popular prejudice against the colored race. He was the first great man that I talked with in the United States freely, who in no single instance reminded me of the difference between himself and myself, of the difference of color

They seemed to think that the greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves. It was considered as being bad enough to be a slave; but to be a poor man's slave was deemed a disgrace indeed!

rien de grand dans le monde ne s'est accomplis sans passion

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. Good is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a common good! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it...

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.