Greatness & Great Things Quotes

...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be,Must rule the empire of himself; in itMust be supreme, establishing his throneOn vanquished will, quelling the anarchyOf hopes and fears, being himself alone.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

George Herbert

There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.

William F. Halsey

No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Publilius Syrus

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth --the power to love --although I have put it last, is the rarest.

Margot Asquith

Selflessness = Greatness

Ogunlela Olu

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

George McGovern

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Jean de La Fontaine

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

Jean de la Bruyere

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer --the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

A. J. P. Taylor

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

Kahlil Gibran

Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness.

Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

Mother Theresa

What millions died that Caesar might be great?

Joseph Campell

He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. On Calvin Coolidge

Clarence Darrow

The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.

Henry Miller