greatness Quotes

“The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack: the round world should have shook lions into civil streets, and citizens to their dens.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

topic:death greatness

“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

topic:greatness

“We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:greatness failure

“The greatest minds never realise their ideals in any matter;”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:greatness

“It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:strength greatness

“Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them; only small mean souls are otherwise.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

topic:greatness soul

“But America is too great for small dreams.”

― Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

topic:greatness dreams

“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

topic:belief greatness

“Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

topic:self greatness others

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:loneliness greatness

1
2
3
4
5

© Copyright 2024 QuoteImageAI