Best greatness & height Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.”

“Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.”

Men Feels Mind Would Be Values Greatness Higher Glory Standards Raised Practicals Height Tempted Value Of Life Practical Life

Book:Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964

Source: Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964

“For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.”

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Book:Gerard Manley Hopkins: poetry and prose

Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: poetry and prose

“Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune.”

“Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.”

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Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.”

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Author:Oscar W. Firkins

“What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were these that have been broken? Isn't the greatness of great nations directly proportionate to their ability to be ruthless, genocidal? Doesn't the height of a country's 'success' usually also mark the depths of its moral failure?”

Has Beens Country Dream Nations Ability Love Is Moral Greatness Broken Mark Depth Height Our Dreams Ruthless Great Nations Moral Failure

Author:Arundhati Roy

“Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.”

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Book:The Purpose and Use of Comfort

Source: The Purpose and Use of Comfort

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

“Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.”

Inspirational Spirit Spirituality Greatness Worthy Height

Book:The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron

Source: The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron

“Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.”

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Author:Ben Hecht

“How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'”

Men Made Said Facts Three Courses Heaven Waiting Water Perfect Virtue Path Greatness Thousand Hundred All Things Embrace Height Sage Ceremony Demeanor

Book:The Chinese Classics

Source: The Chinese Classics

“The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.”

Men Study Minutes Greatness Honor Raises Embrace Constant Seeking Superiors Height Virtuous Inquiry Exquisite Breadth Superior Man

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)

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