Famous Quotes - Tags - Greatness
- A great man is a new statue in every attitude and action. A beautiful woman is a picture which... More
- A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his... More
- A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time. More
- A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
Breathless mouths may summon;
I hail the... More
- A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need... More
- A superior person brings out the best in others. More
- At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightfull... More
- But when all you do, great man, is to empty our pockets, we wish that you were smaller! More
- Chambers of the great are jails,
And head-winds right for royal sails. More
- Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at... More
- Everybody comes along at the right time.... Leonardo was lucky because he came along at the right... More
- False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least... More
- Fare thee well, great heart! More
- Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for... More
- From a great heart secret magnetisms flow incessantly to draw great events. More
- Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. More
- Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. More
- Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d
And tongues that utter’d wisdom—better... More
- Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. More
- Great men regard death as going home. More
- Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a... More
- Greatness is a light-hearted title for theatrical entertainments. Or a definition endowed on men... More
- Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. More
- He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the... More
- He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of... More
- He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. More
- Here was a Caesar! When comes such another? More
- Heroes create circumstances; circumstances create heroes. More
- His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm
Crested the world; his voice was propertied
As... More
- How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito, as a king in gray... More
- I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with... More
- I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood... More
- I take such men to be inspired. I fancy that this moment Shakespeare in heaven ranks with Gabriel... More
- I think continually of those who were truly great.
Who, from the womb, remembered the... More
- I want the necessity of supplying my own wants. All this costly culture of yours is not... More
- I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all... More
- In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels... More
- In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer—the wealth,... More
- In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve... More
- In private life he was good-natured, chearful, social; inelegant in his manners, loose in his... More
- In the very May-morn of his youth,
Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises. More
- Innocence of Life and great Ability were the distinguishing Parts of his Character; the latter,... More
- Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a... More
- It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. More
- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once... More
- It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. More
- It is the privilege of greatness to give great enjoyment with trifling gifts. More
- Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of... More
- Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. More
- Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave... More
- Long shall we seek his likeness, long in vain,
And turn to all of him which may... More
- Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. More
- Many famous feet have trod
Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed
The strength... More
- Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade
Of that which once was great, is passed away. More
- Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be... More
- My formula for greatness in human beings is amor fati: that one wants to change nothing, neither... More
- Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their... More
- Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a... More
- Nature never sends a great man onto the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. More
- Never be lucid, never state,
If you would be regarded great,
The simplest thought or... More
- No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. More
- No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. More
- None but great men are capable of having great flaws. More
- None think the great unhappy, but the great. More
- Not the intensity, but the durability of lofty feelings makes lofty men. More
- O flight,
bring her swiftly to our song.
She is great,
we measure her by the pine trees. More
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man. More
- Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness.... More
- Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in... More
- Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. More
- Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above. More
- Sighing that Nature formed but one such man,
And broke the die. More
- Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to... More
- Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. More
- So stop looking blue
And start serving up your sensations
Before it’s too... More
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em. More
- Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything... More
- The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great... More
- The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the... More
- The disillusioned one speaks.—I sought great human beings, and I never found anything but the... More
- The dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to... More
- The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. More
- The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with... More
- The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What... More
- The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the... More
- The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
Who wore at their hearts the fire’s... More
- The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be... More
- The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. More
- The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to... More
- The world isn’t kept running because it’s a paying proposition. (God doesn’t make a cent on... More
- There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension... More
- There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of... More
- There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoléon and liberty.... More
- There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but... More
- There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great... More
- There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with... More
- Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also... More
- Think not, Percy,
To share with me in glory any more.
Two stars keep not their motion in... More
- This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon;
For he was great of heart. More
- Thou hast left behind
Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies;
There’s... More
Dictionary Tip:
Lookup any word on eNotes with our dictionary. Highlight the word and press SHIFT + D for a definition, or SHIFT + T for a synonym.
