Quotes about great
greatness men ahab
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease. Nathaniel Philbrick
greatness vastness particular
God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular. Pearl S. Buck
greatness men events
The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression. Ralph Waldo Emerson
greatness men sky
In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.
greatness forever opinion
Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
greatness men class
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.
greatness law strive
Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
greatness men want
I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.' Shaquille O'Neal
greatness faces action
True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them. L. Ron Hubbard
greatness civilization library
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end. Lawrence Clark Powell
greatness people disrespect
If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves. Marcus Garvey
greatness racism black
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
greatness men esteem
Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem? Thomas a Kempis
greatness safety steps
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
great-love lovers realizing
Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with. Natalie Goldberg
greatness men humanity
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed. Leo Tolstoy
greatness obscurity lines
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small. Peabo Bryson
greatness certain source
Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released. Ralph Steadman
greatness men want
A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
greatness thinking people
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
greatness perfect excellence
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness. Leo Strauss
greatness broken trying
So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN. Lady Gaga
greatness men taste
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it. Joshua Reynolds
greatness people independence
It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants. Karl Jaspers
greatness people facts
Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power. Julius Charles Hare
greatness destiny symphony
A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion. Joyce Cary
greatness mediocrity pay
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. Oscar Wilde
greatness purpose graves
We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends. Kami Garcia
greatness made grows
Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be! Joyce Meyer
greatness ideas research
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research. Paul Dirac
greatness loner seclusion
Seclusion is the price of greatness. Paramahansa Yogananda
greatness glasses perspective
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
greatness succeed kind
Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants. Katharine Anthony