greatness Quotes

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.