"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. | Greatness | 6 bookmarks

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Greatness | 3 bookmarks

"The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Greatness | 2 bookmarks

"Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions."

Disraeli, Benjamin | Greatness | 2 bookmarks

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Churchill, Winston | Greatness | 10 bookmarks

"The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth --the power to love --although I have put it last, is the rarest."

Asquith, Margot | Greatness | 3 bookmarks

"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great."

Charles, Ray | Greatness | 3 bookmarks

"Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die."

Byron, Lord | Greatness | 1 bookmarks

"The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender."

Booth, William | Greatness | 1 bookmarks

"Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted."

Bonaparte, Napoleon | Greatness | 2 bookmarks