Explore Quotes on Greatness

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Beauty without expression is boring.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

A great man is always willing to be little.

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.