Greatness Quotes - Page 15

• Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

  Charles Simmons

  Integrity, Steps, Firsts

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.275

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• Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night.
  Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Expression, Silence

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.200, University of Iowa Press

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• Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.154

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• It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Law, Bird, Littles

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.166

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• The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Kings, Pedestal, Distinction

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.313

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• As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole earth. The hearts of great men are the stars of earth; and doubtless when one looks down from above upon our planet, these hearts are seen to send forth, a silvery light just like the stars of heaven.

  Heinrich Heine

  Country, Stars, Heart

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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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, History, World

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

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• Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Happiness, Men, Infinite

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 2, ch. 9

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• That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

  Horace

  Men, Brightness, Capacity

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 340-42, Epistles, II. 1. 13, 1922.

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• There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

  Buck Rodgers

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Men, Misunderstood

  Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.55, Penguin

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• Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

  Paul Tsongas

  Destiny, Return, Fulfillment

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• Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great.

  Fred Kent

  Life, Rights, Important

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• The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

  Cicely Tyson

  Deep Thought, Trying, Way

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• I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

  Mark Twain

  Sorry, Names, Feelings

  Mark Twain's speech to the Savage Club (June 9, 1899), as quoted in "Mark Twain's Speeches" edited by William Dean Howells (pp. 277-278), 1910.

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• Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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  Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

  Freddie Mercury

  Success, Time, Rocks

  "Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London". Interview with Scott Cohen, Circus Magazine, www.queenarchives.com. April 1975.

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

  Edmund Burke

  Men, States, Landmarks

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

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• Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.

  Martin Luther

  People, Giving, Imagination

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• Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

  Edmund Burke

  Struggle, Men, Great Men

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.164

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• Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

  John Ruskin

  Mind, Affectionate, Felt

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.186

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• In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, World, Study

  Theodore Parker (1866). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of theology”, p.1

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• There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Institutions, Mankind

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.205

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• He only is great at heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career. And he is greatest who does the most of all these things and does them best.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Heart, Careers, Mind

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