Greatness Quote by Wilkie Collins

“There are no great men, there are only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.”

— Anonymous

“Let not the worst of men be found worse than they really are.”

— George Lawson

“strongest to make men do very bad things before they are yet, individually, very bad men.”

— C.S. Lewis

“If we’re really to give ourselves the best of ourselves, we have to be honest with the worst of ourselves.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.”

— George Washington

“Great men are not so selfless.”

— Brent Weeks

“There's always a little decency in the worst places… and always little secret selfishness in the best.”

— Joe Hill

“Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“No matter how full one's head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was a worthy…

— Sōseki Natsume

“Of course every person you meet in life has an impact on who you become, no matter how small the interaction, everything matters.”

— Katerina Diamond

“General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.”

— Jane Austen

“It is unfortunate for us, that, of some of the greatest men, we know least, and talk most.”

— Homer