Greatness Quote by William Cobbett

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

— James Cash Penney

Having man doesn't validate you. Having a sense of high self worth and being independent does.

— Anonymous

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his…

— Anonymous

The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of…

— Luc de Clapiers

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

— Luc de Clapiers

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to…

— William Hazlitt

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

— George Weinberg

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection…

— Giacomo Leopardi

A great man is always willing to be little.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson