greatness quotes

• Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past. (Margaret Thatcher) [change/direction/greatness/willpower]
• 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) [willpower/greatness/mind]
• No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. (Charles Francis Adams) [amount/greatness]
• It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. (Joseph Addison) [posterity/right/greatness/age]
• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ( Aristotle) [suffering/greatness/mind]
• We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. (Jean Baudrillard) [foundations/greatness/greatness]
• Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting. ( Napoleon I) [greatness]
• All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. (Elizabeth Bowen) [youth/greatness/find]
• It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. (Edmund Burke) [nature/greatness]
• The price of greatness is responsibility. (Winston Churchill) [price/greatness/responsibility]
• Responsibility is the price of greatness. (Winston Churchill) [responsibility/price/greatness]
• Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. (Joseph Conrad) [men/greatness/ability/quality]
• The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [essence/greatness/virtue]
• Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [more/greatness]
• Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/greatness]
• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves. (Mahatma Gandhi) [human/greatness/being/age]
• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. (Mahatma Gandhi) [greatness/animals]
• No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. (William Hazlitt) [greatness]
• Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene. (Ben Hecht) [more/greatness]
• To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [greatness/willpower]
• Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [greatness]
• You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [greatness/character/willpower]
• The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [time/greatness/words/honesty]
• The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ( Plato) [people/champion/greatness]
• Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. (Jim Rohn) [service/greatness/wealth/reputation]
• It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. ( Seneca) [greatness/security/god]
• There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. ( Seneca) [greatness/mind]
• It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. ( Seneca) [mind/greatness/measure]
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night] (William Shakespeare) [greatness/greatness]
• 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) [greatness/greatness/greatness]
• Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. (William Shakespeare) [abuse/greatness/power]

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