Inspirational Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

— Greg Mortenson

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

— William Hazlitt

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had…

— Richard Russo

“You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important…

— Wilhelm Reich

“He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man,…

— Wilhelm Reich

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

“In his memory there was a great tendency to downplay or completely forget their unlovable characteristics. [...] The thoughts that came wanted to be…

— Stephen King

“What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for…

— Neal Stephenson

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

— George Bernard Shaw

“Little by little it became the scene of his real life, of his only rational activities; thither he brought the books he read, the…

— Edith Wharton