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A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
— Walter Savage Landor
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.
— John Ruskin
The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.
— Israel Meir Kagan
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
A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.
— Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne
With the faith of a child and the wisdom of an old man one can achieve great things.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
— William Allen White
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
No matter how full one's head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was a worthy man first.
— Soseki Natsume
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
'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
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
— William Cobbett
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
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
— Abraham Lincoln
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
— Joseph Addison
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
— Brandon Sanderson
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
A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.
— Woodrow Wilson
No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise..
— Wallace D. Wattles
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
The most important result of the efforts of a man is the effort of self-development and continuous growth
— Sunday Adelaja
No man who achieved greatness in the arts operated by himself; he was top man in a group of like-minded individuals.
— Kurt Vonnegut
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
— Lester Maddox
A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
