Greatness Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Mean

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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• He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.

  Margaret Truman Daniel

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Growing Up

  "On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.

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• You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational Life, Sea, Water

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• Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.

  Tawni O'Dell

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

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• Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam.

  Adolf Hitler

  Europe, Two, Islam

  "The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann documents, February-April 1945". Book by Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, London: Cassell, (February 4, 1945), 1961.

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• No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Military, Exercise

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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• The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Safety, Risk, Infinite

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• The NHL's opinion of itself is so high.... Let them get drunk on their greatness. We'll see how many Euros look our way.

  Alexander Medvedev

  Hockey, Nhl, Drunk

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• Team guts always beat individual greatness.

  Robert Zuppke

  Sports, Team, Coaching

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• The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Football, Tennis

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• It's been a wild ride. I hope people can appreciate how special it is to see the people that ran well today; how special and sometimes fleeting greatness can be even from yourself. I gave it everything I had and for a short period of time I did very very well and I'm very proud of that and I'm leaving it at that. I did the best I could.

  Alan Webb

  Athlete, People, Appreciate

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• "With my desire and drive, I definitely wasn't normal. Normal people can be happy with a regular life. I was different. I felt there was more to life than plodding through a normal existence. I'd always been impressed by stories of greatness and power. I wanted to do something special, to be recognized as the best. I saw bodybuilding as the vehicle that would take me to the top, and I put all my energy into it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Life, Motivational, Dream

  "Arnold Education of a Bodybuilder". Book by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Douglas Kent Hall, 1977.

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• He is not great who is not greatly good.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Life, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.333

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• Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through the garden or the fields, listening to the sermon preached by the flowers, the trees, the meadows, the sun, the sky, and the whole universe. You will find that they exhort you to love and praise God; that they excite you to extol the greatness of the Sovereign Architect Who has given them their being.

  Paul of the Cross

  Flower, Garden, Sky

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• Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.

  Marion Jones

  Sports, Track, Wonderful

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• In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Names, History

  War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 1 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

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• The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Littles, Locals

  Samuel Johnson (1782). “The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.231

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• Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

  Francis Picabia

  God, Animal, Men

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• The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

  Ernest Renan

  Death, Men, Rehabilitation

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• There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  People, Desire, Genius

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 70, 1799.

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• All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Artist, Men

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these grains also move with great velocities, they act at a distance one upon another, but this action is so slight at great distances that their trajectories are rectilineal; nevertheless, from time to time, two of them may come near enough together to be deviated from their course, like a comet that passed too close to Jupiter. In a word, in the eyes of a giant, to whom our Suns were what our atoms are to us, the Milky Way would only look like a bubble of gas.

  Henri Poincare

  Stars, Distance, Moving

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.905, Modern Library

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• I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

  Max Perutz

  Memories, Men, Thinking

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• In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Engineering, Achievement, Victory

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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