Greatness Quotes - Page 7

• Be not afraid of greatness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Not Afraid

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [158]

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• No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

  Abel Stevens

  Views, Mind, Firsts

  Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

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• Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Distinction, Expenses, Eminence

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• The most useful is the greatest.

  Theodore Parker

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• I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there are forms of greatness, or at least of excellence, which "die and make no sign"; there are martyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake; heroes without the laurel, and conquerors without the triumph.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Hero, Men, Missing

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• If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a vice, who spent his life in establishing the independence, the glory and durable prosperity of his country; who succeeded in all that he undertook, and whose successes were never won at the expense of justice, integrity, or by the sacrifice of a single principle--this title will not be denied to Washington.

  Jared Sparks

  Country, Integrity, Sacrifice

  Jared Sparks (1855). “The Life of George Washington by Jared Sparks”, p.371

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• Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Men, Events, Said

  John Campbell Shairp (2011). “Robert Burns”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Men, Progress, Littles

  Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard (1853). “A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston”, p.235, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

  Joseph Hall

  Nice, Contentment, Nice Things

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “to xviii”, p.16

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• The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Luxury, Perception, Comfort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1912). “Society and solitude”

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• Great men are sincere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sincere, Great Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Expression, Mind

  John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.346

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• Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

  Samuel Smiles

  Opportunity, Men, Life Is

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.2

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• Greatness is its own torment.

  Theodore Parker

  Torment

  Theodore Parker (1855). “Ten Sermons of Religion”, p.89

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• Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

  Andy Andrews

  Children, Kids, Parenting

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2016

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• The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• The price of greatness is responsibility.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.292, A&C Black

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• No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
  [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspiration, Men, Nemo

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• He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

  William Hazlitt

  Ideas, Mind, Lows

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1905, Delphi Classics

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Life, Bigger And Better Things

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• For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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• I don't need to be in a comfortable spot to achieve greatness. I fight for it no matter what.

  Tyron Woodley

  Fighting, Mma, Needs

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• You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Men, Judging

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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