Quotes about Greatness
Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.
— William Barclay
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
— Benjamin Disraeli
No man is great if he thinks he is.
— Will Rogers
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
— Edmund Burke
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world cannot live at the level of its great men.
— James G. Frazer
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
— Cicero
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
— William Hazlitt
Love can do all things. The most impossible tasks seem to it easy and sweet. You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them. What, then, have we to fear?
— St. Therese of Lisieux