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title: "20 Human Greatness Quotes by 16 authors"
description: "Browse 20 Human Greatness quotes by 16 authors. Discover the best Human Greatness sayings and thoughts."
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> [ \[The\] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-gibbon/the-vain-and-transitory-scenes-of-human-greatness-are-unworthy-of-a/)

[Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-gibbon/)

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> [There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/there-is-only-one-road-to-human-greatness-through-the-school-of-hard/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debbie-ford/if-you-admire-greatness-in-another-human-being-it-is-your-own/)

[Debbie Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debbie-ford/)

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> [Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-frank/human-greatness-does-not-lie-in-wealth-or-power-but-in-character-and-2/)

[Anne Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-frank/)

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> [Philanthropy lies at the heart of human greatness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-j-ryan/philanthropy-lies-at-the-heart-of-human-greatness/)

[Patrick J. Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-j-ryan/)

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> [“The moment one conceives the meaning of human greatness is the moment when one understands the baseness, the triviality and the meanness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hopkins/the-moment-one-conceives-the-meaning-of-human-greatness-is-the-moment/)

[Bill Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-hopkins/)

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> [Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-baker-eddy/every-luminary-in-the-constellation-of-human-greatness-like-the-stars/)

[Mary Baker Eddy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-baker-eddy/)

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> [Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-saroyan/human-greatness-is-a-rather-difficult-thing-to-account-for-and-more/)

[William Saroyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-saroyan/)

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> [Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-strauss/education-to-perfect-gentlemanship-to-human-excellence-liberal/)

[Leo Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-strauss/)

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> [The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/the-tourist-who-moves-about-to-see-and-hear-and-open-himself-to-all/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lerner/)

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> [Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-frank/human-greatness-does-not-lie-in-wealth-or-power-but-in-character-and/)

[Anne Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-frank/)

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> [“a few were given the chance to attain human greatness even through their apparent worldly failure and death, an accomplishment which in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/viktor-e-frankl/a-few-were-given-the-chance-to-attain-human-greatness-even-through/)

[Viktor E. Frankl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/viktor-e-frankl/)

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> [“Humility is the proper attitude towards all true greatness, including one's own greatness as a human being, but above all towards the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karol-wojtyla/humility-is-the-proper-attitude-towards-all-true-greatness-including/)

[Karol Wojtyla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karol-wojtyla/)

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> [The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alphonse-de-lamartine/the-founder-of-twenty-terrestrial-empires-and-of-one-spiritual-empire/)

[Alphonse de Lamartine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alphonse-de-lamartine/)

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> [“Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alphonse-de-lamartine/philosopher-orator-apostle-legislator-warrior-conqueror-of-ideas/)

[Alphonse de Lamartine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alphonse-de-lamartine/)

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> [In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bert-hellinger/in-the-beginning-i-want-to-say-something-about-human-greatness-some/)

[Bert Hellinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bert-hellinger/)

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> [“they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/viktor-e-frankl/they-did-not-take-their-life-seriously-and-despised-it-as-something/)

[Viktor E. Frankl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/viktor-e-frankl/)

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> [“...human greatness and terribleness are not correlated with wealth or other conventional measures of success. I've also learned that judging people before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-dalio/human-greatness-and-terribleness-are-not-correlated-with-wealth-or/)

[Ray Dalio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-dalio/)

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> [Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-curry/rare-is-the-book-that-can-actually-transform-us-into-better-more/)

[Ann Curry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-curry/)

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> [Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-strauss/liberal-education-reminds-those-members-of-a-mass-democracy-who-have/)

[Leo Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-strauss/)

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                        "text": "Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all over the world, Kristof and WuDunn present the clearest view I have ever seen of the human soul. A Path Appears tells us whether we are intrinsically good, why specific ways we parent our newborns help predict their chances for success, and how we can live lives of greater significance. This book, full of rich and riveting true stories, reminds us that human greatness is all around us, and even within us, if we dare to look.",
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