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Greatness Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and…
- It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
- Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary…
- The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
- When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For…
- Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.
- But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that…
- You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that…
- 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.
- All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
- The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
- The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.
- My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future,…
- Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer…
- Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be…
- God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and…
- My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all…
- Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
- Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
More Greatness Quotes
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
- There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. — Abu Bakr
- No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of… — Charles Kendall Adams
- Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities,… — Amelia Barr
- We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. — Jean Baudrillard
- Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man… — Joseph Addison
- Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves… — Henry Ward Beecher
- He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. — Erma Bombeck
- The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity… — Napoleon Bonaparte