Quotes about Greatness
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.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
— William Booth
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?
— John Adams
A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.
— Joseph Addison
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
— Phillips Brooks
No really great man ever thought himself so.
— William Hazlitt
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
— Elbert Hubbard
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
— St. Augustine
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
— St. Augustine
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
— William Hazlitt
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
— Edmund Burke