Home / Topics / Greatness Quotes

Greatness Quotes

Browse 4457 quotes about Greatness.

Greatness Quotes

“There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.”

People Knows Way Stage Greatness Praise Admire Bridges Arrogance Representing Presumptuous

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”

Wells Easy Greatness Genius Horror Mountain Sacred Admire Hills Mediocrity Halloween Masterpiece Assembly Lofty Halloween And Friends

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life.”

“False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.”

Knows Kind Enough Faces Political Politics Loses Greatness Illusion Conscious Familiar Admire Touched Quarters Meanness Frailty Avert True Greatness

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Take back your light. Know that when you're in awe of someone else's greatness, you're really seeing yourself. Identify what you most admire or love about others and see how you can nourish those qualities and bring them out in yourself. Instead of fixating on someone else's brilliance, find ways to develop and demonstrate your own.”

Knows Way Light Quality Seeing Love You Greatness Admire Awe Love Yourself Brilliance Seeing Yourself

Author:Debbie Ford

“Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.”

Men Life Giving Trying Book Might Life Is Leadership Pleasure Company Learning Greatness Notes Admire Great Men Admiration Pleasures Of Life

Book:The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

Source: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

“I do not admire greatness that has no substance.”

Greatness Admire Substance

Book:Slightly Dangerous

Source: Slightly Dangerous