[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing. — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“The moment one conceives the meaning of human greatness is the moment when one understands the baseness, the triviality and the meanness… — Bill Hopkins Copy Share Image
Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness. — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“a few were given the chance to attain human greatness even through their apparent worldly failure and death, an accomplishment which in… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Humility is the proper attitude towards all true greatness, including one's own greatness as a human being, but above all towards the… — Karol Wojtyla Copy Share Image
The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I… — Bert Hellinger Copy Share Image
“they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“...human greatness and terribleness are not correlated with wealth or other conventional measures of success. I've also learned that judging people before… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case… — Ann Curry Copy Share Image
Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness. — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image