Greatness Quotes - Page 6

• If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Mar 16, 2016

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• Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

  H. H. Asquith

  Brain, Lightning, Streaks

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• The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Mind, Height, Great Heights

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• Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Rereading

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

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• Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

  George L. Carlson

  Art, Emotional, Intellectual

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• Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Warrior, Earthquakes, Done

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• No great thing is created suddenly.

  Epictetus

  Perseverance, Inspirational Life, Philosophical

  Epictetus (1964). “The Moral Discourses of Epictetus”

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• We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Mansions

  Jesse Jackson, Roger D. Hatch, Frank E. Watkins (1987). “Straight from the heart”, Fortress Pr

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• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.42

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• I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

  William Shakespeare

  Haste, Glory, Settings

  1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

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• Great men have the nature of a child.

  Ramakrishna

  Children, Men, Great Men

  Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

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• All great men are partially inspired.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Inspired, Great Men

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• Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

  Amelia Barr

  Love, Spiritual, Feelings

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• We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Foundation, Negative, Relation

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.88, Verso

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• Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Wealth, Prosperity

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• Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Happy, Future

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.

  Edmund Burke

  Struggle, Honor, Too Much

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London, relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris ... The seventh edition”, p.74

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• Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

  Joseph Hall

  Nice, Contentment, Nice Things

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “to xviii”, p.16

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• Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Expression, Mind

  John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.346

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• Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

  Samuel Smiles

  Opportunity, Men, Life Is

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.2

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• No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

  Abel Stevens

  Views, Mind, Firsts

  Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

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• Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Real, Character, Simplicity

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Distinction, Expenses, Eminence

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• Since, by your greatness, you
  Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it
  In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor,
  As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of
  The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.

  Cyril Tourneur

  Men, Clouds, Water

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• Greatness is its own torment.

  Theodore Parker

  Torment

  Theodore Parker (1855). “Ten Sermons of Religion”, p.89

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