Quotes with greatness-great

Quotes 81 till 100 of 2249.

  • Lois McMaster Bujold I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
    - +
    +1
  • Thomas Carlyle I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
    - +
    +1
  • Alfred N. Whitehead I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
    - +
    +1
  • Joseph Addison Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
    - +
    +1
  • Joseph Addison Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
    - +
    +1
  • St. John of the Cross It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
    - +
    +1
  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
    - +
    +1
  • Horace Bushnell It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
    - +
    +1
  • William Cobbett It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
    - +
    +1
  • Joseph Addison It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
    - +
    +1
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
    +1
  • Stephen R. Covey It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
    - +
    +1
  • Aaron Neville It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
    Aaron Neville
    American soul and country singer (1941 - )
    - +
    +1
  • St. John of the Cross Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
    - +
    +1
  • Edmund Burke Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
    - +
    +1
  • Frederick Douglass Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
    - +
    +1
  • André Maurois Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
    - +
    +1
  • Daniel Webster Mind is the great lever of all things.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
    - +
    +1
  • William Hazlitt No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
    - +
    +1
  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
    - +
    +1
All greatness-great famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 5)