Quotes about Greatness
Men are only as great as they are kind.
— Elbert Hubbard
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.
— Frederick Buechner
They were great in their day and generation.
— Frederick Douglass
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
— Elbert Hubbard
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
— Anne Frank
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People
— Anne Frank
When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God God: Because when you see something so great, you just go, 'God!
— Anne Lamott
Mary's life shows that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are the most humble.
— Pope Francis
The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.
— John F. Kennedy