Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“He had a boyish enthusiasm for warfare and was delighted beyond words to be made a colonel in the Illinois National Guard without ever…

— Bill Bryson

“If we had any leisure we would here digress a little on that ingratitude which so many writers have observed to spring up in…

— Henry Fielding

“The greatest people are the ones who have not sought greatness, but served greatly the causes, values, and missions that were much bigger than…

— Henry Cloud

“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service…

— Sun Tzu

“the hard look of a man who also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were…

— Jeff Shaara

“As he spoke, he looked into their faces and saw, as though in his own features, that fundamentally they all bore the indelible impress…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the…

— Claudio Magris

“In most cases, true greatness is a silent and lonely affair, unaccompanied by the trumpeted fanfare of acclaim.”

— Richard Paul Evans