Greatness Of Man Quotes

• The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Greatness, Men

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• The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

  William Booth

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Power

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Men, Greatness

  1906 Charles Dickens, ch.1.

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Hero, Greatness, Men

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• No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Greatness, History

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

  Alexis Carrel

  Greatness, Men, Intuition

  "Nava-Vēda: God and Man" by M. B. Raja Rao, p. 229, 1968.

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• If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Greatness, Men

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• Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Ordinary

  Walter Savage Landor (1883). “Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman”

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• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

  Song: Trenchtown Rock

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• The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

  Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 4

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• Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Greatness, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.26, Publishdrive

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• Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

  Edmund Burke

  Greatness, Men, States

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2433, Delphi Classics

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• There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Greatness, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1811). “The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary: Of the Late Benjamin Franklin”, p.155

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• A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

  Eric Hoffer

  Time, Good Luck, Greatness

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Nature, Greatness

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• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motherhood, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.115, University of Missouri Press

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• At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

  John Donne

  Greatness, Men, World

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• The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Adversity, Men, Greatness

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• Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge - a challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight, the courage to work, the courage to achieve - to achieve the highest excellencies and the fullest greatness of man. Dare we ask for more in life?

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Dream, Believe, Responsibility

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• Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Men, Tree

  "Selections from The Thoughts".

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