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Friday, 21 November 2008
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"There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American." (Twain, Mark - America)

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Browse Quotations about Greatness

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in school.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Great men are not always wise.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
He is not great who is not greatly good.
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On Calvin Coolidge]
I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck.
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
I want to be great, something special.
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer --the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em.
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.
It is not difficult to get away into retirement; and there live upon your own convictions; nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions; but to enter into the world; and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience; that is Christian greatness.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
No great thing is created suddenly.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
No one ever became great by imitation.
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
Nobody's ever the greatest anything.
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night]
Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.