Greatness & Great Things Quotes

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Sydney Smith

Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is not difficult to get away into retirement; and there live upon your own convictions; nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions; but to enter into the world; and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience; that is Christian greatness.

Source Unknown

If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.

Source Unknown

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.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Samuel Johnson

No one ever became great by imitation.

Samuel Johnson

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

Edward Young

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Max Beerbohm

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Frank Dane

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Leigh Hunt

In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Nig

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

Ernest Renan

You don't have to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to be great.

Lee J. Colan, Sticking to It

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Eric Hoffer

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Marya Mannes