Quotes with greatness

  • The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
  • You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
  • Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
  • The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.
  • The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
  • Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
  • America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
  • We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
  • The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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  • Vaclav Havel A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Les Brown Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • 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
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Jim Rohn Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Oprah Winfrey All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bowen All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • John W. Gardner America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ernst Fischer As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
    Ernst Fischer
    Austrian journalist, writer and politician (1899 - 1972)
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  • Ayn Rand Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • William Shakespeare Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
    Twelfth Night (1601)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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