Explore Quotes on Greatness

It is not the position, but the disposition.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

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

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.

No great thing is created suddenly.

You will not be able to tell that they are capable of greatness until you provide them with a packed house, a 3-and-2 count and the game is on the line.

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what counts more than talent, what counts more than energy or concentration or commitment, or anything else - is kindness. And the more in the world that you encounter kindness and cheerfulness - which is its kind of amiable uncle or aunt - the better the world always is. And all the big words: virtue, justice, truth - are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

Tap into that one fear that drives greatness - the fear of regret.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.