greatness Quotes

“The History of the World, I said already, was the Biography of Great Men.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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“The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“I fear those big words . . . which make us so unhappy.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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“Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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“a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“Remember, you have been given absolute power to bind and to loose, but the greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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“Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven. But not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves—or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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