The first step toward greatness is to be honest. – Proverb
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
Greatness is a spiritual condition. – Matthew Arnold
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. – Jean Baudrillard
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. – Pierre De Beaumarchais
The dullards envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. – Max Beerbohm
Great men are not always wise. – Bible
Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting. – Napoleon Bonaparte
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. – Elizabeth Bowen
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. – Phillips Brooks
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – William Cullen Bryant
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. – Edmund Burke
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. – Edmund Burke
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
What millions died that Caesar might be great? – Joseph Campell
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. – Albert Camus
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. – Alexis Carrel
