greatness Quotes

“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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“all things are admired, either because they are new, or because they are great.”

― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

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“After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things — terrible, yes, but great.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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“For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do, and there is surely no one who thinks that a man became great because he won the great prize in the lottery.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

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“Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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“I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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“Be great in act, as you have been in thought;”

― William Shakespeare, King John

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“A great man is always willing to be little.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

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“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”

― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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