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Select Quotes About Greatness

By Simran Khurana, About.com

I do not know whether people are born great, or whether they have greatness thrust upon them. I do know that great people demonstrate certain characteristics that distinguish them from others. This is a collection of quotes that will give you an insight on that which is great. If you want me to include your favorite greatness quote on this site, please fill out the quotation suggestion form.


Greatness Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.

Greatness Quote by Alexander Pope
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dar'd.

Greatness Quote by Alexander Pope
A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

Greatness Quote by Rudyard Kipling
Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

Greatness Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Greatness Quote by Walt Whitman
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman.

Greatness Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Greatness Quote by Alexander Pope
Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.

Greatness Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Greatness Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.

Greatness Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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