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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. -- Blaise Pascal
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. -- Peyton Manning
The banalities of a great man pass for wit. -- Alexander Chase
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was a great thundering paradox of a man. -- William Manchester
There is a great deal of human nature in man. -- Charles Kingsley
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't know of any great man who ever had a great son. -- Anthony Mann
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. -- James Russell Lowell
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards. -- Livy
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. -- Ryan Phillippe
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. -- Thomas Carlyle
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. -- George Bernard Shaw
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. -- William Hazlitt
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches. -- Frederick the Great
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness. -- Myles Munroe
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. -- Victor Hugo
A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The only greatness for man is immortality. -- James Dean
The greatness of work is inside man. -- Pope John Paul II
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness. -- Lucan
The man of true greatness never loses his child's heart. -- Mencius
When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. -- H. G. Wells
A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatness of a man is only measured by his urologist. -- Bob Saget
The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender. -- William Booth
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. -- William Booth
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. -- Frederick William Robertson
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry -- Abraham Lincoln
You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed. -- Will Rogers
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. -- Thomas Carlyle
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles. -- Wendell Phillips
It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness. -- James Smithson
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition. -- Albert Camus
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness -- Chinua Achebe
Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. -- Zig Ziglar
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. -- William Allen White
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. -- Thomas Otway
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man; but it is the enemy of greatness -- Garrison Wynn
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. -- John Steinbeck
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. -- Jonathan Swift
It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit. -- C. V. Wedgwood
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person. -- Pope John Paul II
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. -- Walter Savage Landor
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. -- Robert Kennedy
A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good. -- Anuj
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. -- Edgar Allan Poe
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once. -- Blaise Pascal
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. -- Horace Mann
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man. -- John Ruskin
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. -- Lester Maddox
Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man. -- Hafez
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As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease. -- Nathaniel Philbrick
The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness. -- Adolf Hitler
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man. -- Heinrich Heine
When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet. -- Lu Xun
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. -- Ernst Fischer
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.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. -- William Cobbett
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. -- Frederick Douglass
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it. -- Wilferd Peterson
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. -- Blaise Pascal
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness -- Myles Munroe
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces. -- Seneca the Younger
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving. -- Arthur Helps
I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength. -- Edwin Land
The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king. -- Isaac Bickerstaffe
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals. -- Dorothy Height
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. -- John Drinkwater
You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him. -- Jerry Falwell
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work. -- Beryl Markham
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself. -- John Piper
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman. -- Walt Whitman
'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God. -- Spark Matsunaga
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. -- Vicente Fox
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. -- Vicente Fox
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. -- Bob Marley
It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man--almost rarer--who is great enough to see greatness and say so. -- Ayn Rand
The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does. -- Harpo Marx
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him. -- Denis Diderot
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America. -- Jim Ramstad
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? -- Alphonse de Lamartine

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