More Great Sayings And Quotes On Greatness

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

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

“A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.”
– Eric Hoffer

“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

“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

“True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.”
– Froude

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

“There would be no great ones if there were no little ones.”
– George Herber

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”
– Gibran Khalil Gibran

“Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.”
– Gibran Khalil Gibran

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

“Great men have great discipline.”
– Habeeb Akande

“Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.”
– Harry S. Truman

“Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary – they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

“Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men. The people who can catch hold of men’s minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history, those who stir feelings and imagination and make men struggle toward perfection.”
– Henry Eyring

“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

“Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.”
– Hitopadesa

“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

“Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.”
– Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

“Many great opportunities are not cheap; but some cheap opportunities are so great.”
– Iveta Cherneva

“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

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

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

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