Greatness Quotes - Page 43

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.

Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were these that have been broken? Isn't the greatness of great nations directly proportionate to their ability to be ruthless, genocidal? Doesn't the height of a country's 'success' usually also mark the depths of its moral failure?

The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet's greatness is contained in his words; yet the study of his words will not disclose his inspiration. God reveals himself in creation; but scrutinize creation as minutely as you wish, you will not find God, any more than you will find the soul through careful examination of your body.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.

It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not to live an impassioned life. It is unethical not to attain greatness. It is unethical to succumb to the fear of envy and the conspiracy of mediocrity. It is unethical not to self-bestow genius. It is unethical not to be the first monkey.

A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.