Thursday 31 January 2013

GREATNESS QUOTES

"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be."
Henri Frederic Amiel

"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." William Shakespeare

"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
Thomas Carlyle



"Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions." Benjamin Disreali

"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not." Marya Mannes
"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be."
Henri Frederic Amiel

"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." William Shakespeare

"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
Thomas Carlyle



"Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions." Benjamin Disreali

"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not." Marya Mannes
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude." Arthur Schopenhauer

"Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great." Harry S. Truman

"The price of greatness is responsibility." Winston Churchill

"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." Lou Holtz

"The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself." Billy Mills

"It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age." Joseph Addison

"Don?t wait until you?re a man to be great. Be a ?great? boy." Anonymous

"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things." Lawrence D. Bell

"Greatness after all, ion spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small." Phillips Brooks

"Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket." Andrew Carnegie



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