Quotations about Greatness

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13 Quotes Found

"Great men grow tired of contentedness."
	-Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France
"Great men are meteors that burn so that the earth may be lighted."
	-Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France
"Every great action is extreme."
	-Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of great purpose."
	-Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness."
	-Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher, in Zarathrustra
"But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain. Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?"
	-John F. Kennedy, Thirty-fifth President of the United States, In Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas, on announcing the planning of the first manned mission to the moon.
"The ability of someone to choose and arrange the details of their creative field guided by a vision is a major hallmark of a genius."
	-John Briggs
"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
	-George Eliot (1819 - 1880), English Victorian writer
"The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night."
	-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet
"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."
	-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German dramatist, poet & novelist
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
	-Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), British prime minister during WWII
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
	-Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Dutch painter
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
	-Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate and international physicist