Greatness Quote by Edward Gibbon

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed…

— Charles Spurgeon

Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all…

— Ann Curry

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

— Mary Baker Eddy

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

— Debbie Ford

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

— Leo Strauss

“The moment one conceives the meaning of human greatness is the moment when one understands the baseness, the triviality and the meanness of the…

— Bill Hopkins

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human…

— Max Lerner

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one…

— William Saroyan

“...human greatness and terribleness are not correlated with wealth or other conventional measures of success. I've also learned that judging people before really seeing…

— Ray Dalio

“they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Humility is the proper attitude towards all true greatness, including one's own greatness as a human being, but above all towards the greatness which…

— Karol Wojtyla

“Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

— Leo Strauss

Philanthropy lies at the heart of human greatness.

— Patrick J. Ryan

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and…

— Anne Frank