Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

Summary

This quote suggests that someone who is relentlessly chasing after greatness or greatness in their life has no time to focus on trivial or insignificant desires. The pursuit of grandeur consumes their entire being, leaving no room for small, mundane wants or needs. It implies that individuals who are completely dedicated to achieving magnificence cannot be bothered by trivial pleasures or materialistic desires, as their focus is solely on attaining greatness in their chosen endeavor.

Topics

Desires

By Johann Kaspar Lavater

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Society

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposi

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Politics

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Art

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude o

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. Proverbs 11:14

Advice

Your seed is your initial intent and it flourishes when your

Your seed is your initial intent and it flourishes when your actions reflect that intent.

Action

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very comm

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

Stephen Hawking

Humor Funny Science Stupidity

My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was

My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.

Relationship

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a fri

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Marriage

However far your travels take you, you will never find the g

However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the travel brochure.

Advertising

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriend

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

Women

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes y

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.- Clary Fray

Cassandra Clare

Love Clary Fray Mortal Instruments Cassandra Clare

For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another

For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.

Oliver Goldsmith

Judgment Judging