Greatness Quotes - Page 47

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

You've got to keep your body active, even if that means just turning on some music and dancing for an hour. ...That's how you;ll prepare your bodies and your minds for greatness.

I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that.

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Greatness is not always largeness.

I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

Daily life is the enemy of greatness.

Greatness is a two-faced coin - and the reverse is humility.

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

All great men are partially inspired.

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

Greatness breaks laws.

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.