Greatness

(551 votes)   In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(393 votes)   To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(302 votes)   Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(298 votes)   A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(283 votes)   Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(244 votes)   Great men are not always wise.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(242 votes)   The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth --the power to love --although I have put it last, is the rarest.

Margot Asquith
1864-1945, British Socialite

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(236 votes)   Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(221 votes)   At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

John Donne
1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet

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(183 votes)   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.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(141 votes)   In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher

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(132 votes)   A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(117 votes)   A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer

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(116 votes)   False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(109 votes)   Great men always pay deference to greater.

Walter Savage Landor
1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist

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