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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
Jean Baudrillard
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.
James Watson
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.
Jean de la Bruyere
Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
Hitopadesa
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
Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
Edmund Burke
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Charles Montesquieu
I want to be great, something special.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.
Gerald F. Lieberman
To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit.To find that answer, we need only look within ourselves.When we listen to the better angels of our nature, we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things--such as goodness, decency, love, kindness.Greatness comes in simple trappings.
Richard Milhous Nixon, First Ina
I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck.
Adam Duritz
