Greatness Quotes
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Thomas Carlyle
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries
Blaise Pascal
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Kahlil Gibran
An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
William C. Bryant
Work to connect yourself to the "allness" of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.
Guy Finley
The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.
Guy Finley
Catching a glimpse of your own greatness can be one of the most unsettling experiences imaginable.
Steve Pavlina
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later
Henry Fielding
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there
James Buchanan
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
Albert Camus
Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw
Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.
Ayn Rand
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
Lawrence Clark Powell
