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Greatness QuotesFamous Greatness quotes by popular authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles de Gaulle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Goodman, R. H. Tawney and others.
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[highlight-text]To be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]A great ship asks deep water.
George Herbert
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[highlight-text]Great men are not always wise.
Bible
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[highlight-text]The biggest dog has been a pup.
Joaquin Miller
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[highlight-text]A white wall is the fool's paper.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]Few great men could pass Personnel.
Paul Goodman
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[highlight-text]Only great men may have great faults.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]Great and good are seldom the same man.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]No man ever yet became great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]None think the great unhappy but the great.
Edward Young
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[highlight-text]The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Alexander Chase
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[highlight-text]The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
Henry Taylor
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[highlight-text]All great men come out of the middle classes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
Charles de Gaulle
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[highlight-text]There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]When you're as great as I am it's hard to be humble.
Muhammad Ali
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[highlight-text]Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
Herbert Asquith
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[highlight-text]We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]The greatest truths are the simplest and so are the greatest men.
J. C. and A . W. Hare
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[highlight-text]The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
Max Stirner
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[highlight-text]His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.
John Stuart Mill
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[highlight-text]A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great
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[highlight-text]Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time.
Sydney Smith
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[highlight-text]Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
Walter Savage Landor
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[highlight-text]The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.
Charles Rollin
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[highlight-text]If I am a great man then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.
Bonar Law
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[highlight-text]Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Marianne Williamson
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[highlight-text]To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]Some are born great some achieve greatness and some hire public relations officers.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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[highlight-text]Some are born great some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Lewis Mumford
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[highlight-text]Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
Cher
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[highlight-text]No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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[highlight-text]Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Max Beerbohm
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[highlight-text]What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
Josi Ortega y Gasset
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[highlight-text]Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.
Stephen Spender
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[highlight-text]Each honest calling each walk of life has its own elite its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
James Bryant Conant
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[highlight-text]He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Charles Reed
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[highlight-text]Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
R. H. Tawney
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[highlight-text]Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Charles Reade
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[highlight-text]The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
Jean de la Bruyere
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[highlight-text]If you want to know your true opinion of someone watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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[highlight-text]One can build the Empire State Building discipline the Prussian army make a state hierarchy mightier than God yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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[highlight-text]It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
Sigmund Freud
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[highlight-text]Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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[highlight-text]If my theory of relativity is proven successful Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Albert Einstein
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[highlight-text]The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism pride hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.
Charles de Gaulle