Quotes of Greatness - somelinesforyou

“ Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive. ”

- Eric A. Burns

“ By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. ”

- Grenville Kleiser

“ I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement. ”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

“ There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. ”

- Maxwell Anderson

“ There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place. ”

- Sir Francis Bacon

“ The price of greatness is responsibility. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ”

- Stewart L. Udall

“ The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis. ”

- Thurgood Marshall

“ The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it. ”

- Wilfred A. Peterson

“ Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ”

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“ 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 'em. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. ”

- Vincente Fox

“ He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. ”

- William Hazlitt

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it. ”

- Wilfred A. Peterson

“ If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts. ”

- Unknown
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9