| Author |
Quotes |
| Ben Jonson | For he that once is good, is ever great. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. |
| Charles De Gaulle | Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. |
| Daniel J Boorstin | Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. |
| G K Chesterton | There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. |
| Gerald Stanley Lee | The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand. |
| Greek Proverb | Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues. |
| Homer | Ajax the great . . . Himself a host. |
| Horatius Flaccus | That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. |
| Isaac D Israeli | The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. |
| James Russell Lowell | A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. |
| John W Gardner | Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. |
| Richard Knolles | Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land. |
| Richard Le Gallienne | Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame. Ah, do you dream to be mistaken great And to be really great are just the same? |
| Sir Francis Hastings Doyle | So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate, Who dies as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. |
| Sir Winston Churchill | The price of greatness is responsibility. |
| Thomas Carlyle | We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. |
| Thomas Carlyle | Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. |
| Thomas Carlyle | No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. |
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