Greatness Quotes - Page 36

• True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mistake, Ignorant, Bears

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Age, Recognition, Granted

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.171, Courier Corporation

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• All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

  Margaret Fuller

  Feelings, Mind, Different

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.8

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• A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Men, Numbers

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.355, NYU Press

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• Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Individual, Strive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.21

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• The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

  T. S. Eliot

  Literature, Determined, Remember

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.

  William Hazlitt

  Reality, Way, Kind

  William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “A reply to 'Z.' A letter to William Gifford, esq. Prefatory remarks to Oxberry's New English drama. Liber amoris; or, The new Pygmalion. Characteristics. Preface and critical list of authors from Select British poets”

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• The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Past, Achievement

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Nature, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Two, Politics

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.520

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• The greatness of work is inside man.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Inside Man, Work Effort

  Pope John Paul II, Jerzy Peterkiewicz (1982). “Collected poems”, Random House Inc

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• He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

  Joseph Addison

  Independent, Men, Favors

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.227

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• Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Intellectual, Receiving

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• There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

  Joseph Addison

  Defense, Obscurity, Kind

  "The Works of Joseph Addison".

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• Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.

  Frank Herbert

  Imagination, Feelings, Consistent

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• What is greatness? Greatness is when you have found out that you are not great, but everything else is.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Found

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• It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be.

  Paul Arden

  Inspirational, Softball, Children

  "It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be". Book by Paul Arden, 2003.

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• What you subconsciously want, you will get. And what you subconsciously do not want, you will avoid.

  Bo Sanchez

  Want

  Bo Sanchez “8 Secrets of the Truly Rich”, Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc.

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• The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and I chewed as fast as I could.

  Paul Hogan

  Courage, Secret, Bits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

  Robert Ringer

  Magic, Genius, Flow

  Robert Ringer (2004). “Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves”, p.38, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

  Muhammad Ali

  Wise, Knowing, Martial Arts

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2010

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• Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Stars, Light, Shining

  Mary Baker Eddy (2000). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Forever, Opinion

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• Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, People, Faults

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “The Art of Controversy”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Mother, Real, Father

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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