Great Quotes – Sayings About Greatness

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“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people‘s safety and greatness.”
– Eldridge Cleaver

“An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.”
– Elizabeth Bowen

“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.”
– Ernst Fischer

“Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“In art, at a certain level, there is no ‘better than.’ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.”
– Frank Ocean

“Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”
– Frederick Douglass

“It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.”
– Friedrich Schiller

“Part of America’s greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.”
– Gary Bauer

“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.”
– Golda Meir

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

“Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.”
– Gustav Stresemann

“Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.”
– Gustav Stresemann

“He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.”
– Henry Fielding

“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.”
– Horace Mann

“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”
– Horace Mann

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The only greatness for man is immortality.”
– James Dean

“All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.”
– James F. Cooper

“It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.”
– Jean Anouilh

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

“Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.”
– Jean De La Fontaine

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

“We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.”
– Jesse Jackson

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