Quotes about greatness
greatness certain source
Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released. Ralph Steadman
greatness class skulls
The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon! Ralph Waldo Emerson
greatness men dresses
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
greatness luxury perception
The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.
greatness men want
A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
greatness men unique
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
greatness men soul
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
greatness and-love levity
Let him be great, and love shall follow him.
greatness hands share
There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.
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
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
greatness men long
Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
greatness makeup expression
Beauty without expression is boring.
greatness special-you imagine
You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine. Les Brown
greatness people great-people
Doing great requires that we become great people, and all of us can become great people.
greatness special-you character-building
You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!
greatness punishment citizens
The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him. Thomas Aquinas
greatness humans human-beings
The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.
greatness men events
The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.
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 thinking dull
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great. Samuel Johnson
greatness imitation
No one ever became great by imitation.
greatness men littles
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
greatness understanding virtue
It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.