All true greatness is born from stillness.
-Thomas Carlyle
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
-Zadok Rabinowitz
All true greatness
must come from internal growth.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is great in knowledge, great in himself,
and great in his influence in the world,
in the measure that he is great in self-control.
-James Allen
They're only truly great
who are truly good.
-George Chapman
He is not great,
who is not greatly good.
-William Shakespeare
The essence of greatness
is the perception that virtue is enough.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There never was yet a truly great man
that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
-Benjamin Franklin
If any man seeks for greatness,
let him forget greatness and ask for truth,
and he will find both.
-Horace Mann
There is no greatness
where simplicity goodness and truth are absent.
-Leo Tolstoy
These are the qualities of a great soul:
gentleness and tolerance.
-Grace Cooke
How may a man obtain greatness?
By fidelity, truth and lofty thoughts.
-The Talmud
No life ever grows great
until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
-Harry E. Fosdick
True greatness
consists of being great in little things.
-Charles Simmons
Be great in little things.
-St. Francis Xavier
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light,
not in one flamboyant hour,
but in the ledger of his daily work.
-Beryl Markham
A truly great man
is ever the same under all circumstances.
-Machiavelli
A great man is made up of qualities
that meet or make great occasions.
-James Russell Lowell
One mark of a great man
is the power of making lasting impressions
upon the people he meets.
-Winston Churchill
By greatness is meant an exceptional capacity of kind or another
which makes a man eminent among his fellows.
-Aurobindo Ghose
Greatness lies not in being strong,
but in the right use of strength;
and strength is not rightly used
when it only serves to carry a man above his fellows
for his own solitary glory.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts
by the attraction of his own.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Most people confuse greatness with power,
despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.
-Anonymous
A great man is one who can have power
and not abuse it.
-Henry L. Doherty
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
-Samuel Johnson
Every great man is unique.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men can't be ruled.
-Ayn Rand
Greatness charts its own course.
-William Douglas Horden
True greatness is often unrecognized.
-Russell H. Conwell
To be great is to be misunderstood.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own,
or the indication of his own.
-Walt Whitman
The world know nothing of its greatest men.
-Henry Taylor
The world cannot live at the level of its great men.
-James George Frazer
Greatness knows itself.
-William Shakeseare
He knows himself greatly
never opposes his greatness.
-William Blake
Distinction is the consequence, never the object,
of a great mind.
-Washington Allston
No truly great man
ever thought himself so.
-William Hazlitt
All greatness is unconscious,
or is little and naught.
-Thomas Carlyle
The first test of a really great man
is his humility.
-John Ruskin
Great men never make bad use of their superiority;
they see it, and feel it, and are not less modest.
The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
Many great men even have often very great vices and many of them.
Great men are not usually model characters.
-Aurobindo Ghose
There is a great man
who makes every man feel small.
But the real great man
is the man who makes every man feel great.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
When you meet greatness in others,
the greatness in yourself is awakened.
-Christian Larson
The really great make you feel that you, too,
can become great.
-Mark Twain
The great of this earth
are not only simple but accessible.
-Isaac F. Marcosson
Greatness is always built upon this foundation:
the ability to appear, speak and act as the most common man.
-Hafiz
He is the great man
who uses earthenware dishes as if they were silver;
and he is equally great
who uses silver as if it were earthenware.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A great man
is always willing to be little.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sign of a great man is that the closer you get,
the greater he seems.
-Chofetz Chaim
The most characteristic mark of a great mind
is to choose some one important object,
and pursue it for life.
-Anna Letitia Barbauld
Great minds are like eagles,
and build their nest in some lofty solitude.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Seclusion is the price of greatness.
-Yogananda
To live alone is the fate
of all great souls.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The great are strongest
when they stand alone.
-Aurobindo Ghose
Great souls endure in silence.
-Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
No soul can become great
until faith in its own power has become unbounded.
-Christian Larson
The great soul depends upon
nothing exterior to himself.
-Christian Larson
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks;
they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime.
The test of greatness is the page of history.
-William Hazlitt
A great man [is] an outstanding individual
who is at once a product and an agent of the historical process,
at once the representative and the creator of social forces
which change the shape of the world and the thoughts of men.
-Edward Hallett Carr
The true test of a great man -
that, at least, which must secure his place
among the highest order of great men -
is, his having been in advance of his age.
-Henry Brougham
Great minds are related
to the brief span of time during which they live
as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand:
you cannot see them in all their magnitude
because you are standing too close to them
-Arthur Schopenhauer
There never was great institution or a great man
that did not, sooner or later,
receive the reverence of mankind.
-Theodore Parker
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men
and men are great only as they are determined to be so.
-Charles de Gaulle
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness
if greatness is expected of him.
-John Steinbeck
Be not afraid of greatness:
some are born great,
some achieve greatness
and some have greatness thrust upon them.
-William Shakespeare
A great man is only an actor
playing out his ideal.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
He is great who is what he is from Nature,
and who never reminds us of others.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
-Mohandas Gandhi
The price of greatness is responsibility.
-Winston Churchill
A great ship asks deep water.
-George Herbert
He who would be a great soul in the future
must be a great soul now.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great souls care only for what is great.
-Henri Amiel
The surest proof that a person can give of his greatness
is his vast outlook.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
It is a mark of greatness
to see all things in relation to universal realities.
-J. Donald Walters
Great things are done
where men and mountains meet.
-William Blake
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only greatness is unselfish love.
-Henry Drummond
The truly great souls
become streams of love.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
He alone is great
who turns the voice of the wind into a song
made sweeter by his own loving.
-Kahlil Gibran
Greatness is a spiritual condition
worthy to excite love, interest and admiration.
-Matthew Arnold
Great men are they who see
that spiritual is stronger than any material force,
that thoughts rule the world.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatness of the individual
is the greatness of the eternal Energy within.
-Aurobindo Ghose
Great men
are but manifestations of great man.
-Selvarajan Yesudian
It is the nature of greatness
not to be exact.
-Edmund Burke
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