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Greatness Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every great man is unique.
- He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
- A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
- Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
- Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
- When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him.…
- What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may…
- Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
- The greatest man in history was the poorest.
- We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
- The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself…
- In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the…
- Let him be great, and love shall follow him.
- Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all…
- Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
- To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Always do what you are afraid to do.
- A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- A great man is always willing to be little.
- Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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- 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