Greatness Quotes

2048 Greatness quotes by 1107 unique authors

The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world. — Mike Tyson
It's been a wild ride. I hope people can appreciate how special it is to see the people that ran well today; how special and… — Alan Webb
"With my desire and drive, I definitely wasn't normal. Normal people can be happy with a regular life. I was different. I felt there was… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
He is not great who is not greatly good. — William Shakespeare
Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through… — Paul of the Cross
Jesus does not so much look at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do… — Therese of Lisieux
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. — William Shakespeare
No one ever became great by imitation. — Samuel Johnson
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great. — Samuel Johnson
Great men always pay deference to greater. — Walter Savage Landor
All my life I have always known I was born to greatness. — Oprah Winfrey
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries. — Karl Pearson
Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these… — Henri Poincare
If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we… — Eleanor Roosevelt
It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words,… — Marian Wright Edelman
Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great… — Marion Jones
If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it… — Alan Armstrong
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty… — Elbert Hubbard
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. — Max Beerbohm
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. — Edmund Burke
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. — Lord Byron
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… — Jean de la Bruyere
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. — Edmund Burke
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation. — Benjamin Disraeli

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