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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
Lord Chesterfield
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
G. W. F. Hegel
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Albert Camus
The first step toward greatness is to be honest.
Proverb
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them. . . . They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
John W. Gardner
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness
William Cullen Bryant
After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in school.
Kin Hubbard
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
Pierre De Beaumarchais
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
Phillips Brooks
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Alexis Carrel
