Greatness Quote by Sōseki Natsume

“Wise man doesn't need to be praised like one. It can reduce the guts of him to be a better man.”

— Toba Beta

“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

“Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback.”

— Charles Dickens

“For, a man is the one who is judged by his accomplishments and not by appearances alone.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness.”

— Colleen McCullough

“I was never going to amount to much anyway, but now, statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go…

— Neal Shusterman

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition... I have no other so great as that of being truely esteemed of my fellow…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Had been bulky men, quietly content, who, in our first youth, had come to grasp our own unremarkableness and had, cheerfully (as if bemusedly…

— George Saunders

“Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.”

— Laini Taylor

“And I guess a man’s importance in the world can be measured by the quality and number of his glories.”

— John Steinbeck

“Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“then it occurred to him that a worthy man dedicates himself not to one particular thing which attracts him, but to all tasks; and…

— James A. Michener