Quotes about Greatness

In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. -Is it so bad, then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood...

The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

Learn how to carry a friendship greatly, whether or not it is returned. Why should one regret if the receiver is not equally generous? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. If he is unequal, he will presently pass away; but thou art enlarged by thy own shining.

Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.—'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'—Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.