Greatness Quotes - Page 12

• Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Mean, Men

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

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• Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Esquire, Nov. 1962

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• Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

  Charles Simmons

  Love, Honesty, Integrity

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• Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Determined

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• Every great man is unique.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Unique, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Inspiration, Misunderstood

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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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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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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  After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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• To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.

  Michael Sam

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Courage

  "The 10 Most Emotional Moments in ESPYs History, From Caitlyn Jenner to Jim Valvano" by Lynsey Eidell, www.glamour.com. July 16, 2015.

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• Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

  George MacDonald

  God, Faith, Believe

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• That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Men, Self, Praise

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• Great and good are seldom the same man.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Good Times, Great Friend

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• Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

  Philip James Bailey

  War, Air, Two

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• For he that once is good, is ever great.

  Ben Jonson

  Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.173

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• The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Race, Justice

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of politics”, p.135

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• Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Men, Becoming Great

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• Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Art, Mean, Giving

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

  Damien Hirst

  Painting, Nervous, Mark

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• The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

  Andre Gide

  Artist, Obstacles, Great Art

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.54, Routledge

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• Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Littles, Rooms

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.110

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• Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

  Vicente Fox

  Men, Civilization, Pieces

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• A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Strong, Moving

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• Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Scientist, Theory

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• One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Army, Discipline, Overcoming

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