More Great Sayings And Quotes On Greatness

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More Great Sayings And Quotes On Greatness


“In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.”
– Marya Mannes

“The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one’s greatness of soul.”
– Mason Cooley

“Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.”
– Matthew Henry

“Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.”
– Maya Angelou

“The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
– Mencius

“I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.”
– Michael Jordan

“I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‘em out, I pick the round.”
Muhammad Ali

“Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

“Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.”
– Nicolas Chamfort

“Let’s drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let’s drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.”
– Noel Coward

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
Oprah Winfrey

“I always knew I was destined for greatness.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.”
Oscar Wilde

“Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it”
– Oscar Wilde

“The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.”
– Phillips Brooks

“The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.”
– Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

“Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.”
– Publilius Syrus

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every great man is unique.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.”
– Richard Le Gallienne

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
– Robert Kennedy

“You can only exceed your limits if you’ve discovered them.”
– Roel van Sleeuwen

“Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.”
– Roman Payne

“He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.”
– Samuel Johnson

“No one ever became great by imitation.”
– Samuel Johnson

“The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don’t despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.”
– Sanjo Jendayi

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