Quotes on Greatness

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

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

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

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.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of reasoning of the time when it was written; and each chief step in science has been a lesson in logic.

When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.