The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoléon BonaparteStichwörter: greatness
In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, Kepler's or Newton's discoveries could become known to people in no other way than by sacrificing the lives of one, or ten, or a hundred or more people who were hindering the discovery, or standing as an obstacle in its path, then Newton would have the right, and it would even be his duty... to remove those ten or a hundred people, in order to make his discoveries known to mankind. It by no means follows from this, incidentally, that Newton should have the right to kill anyone he pleases, whomever happens along, or to steal from the market every day. Further, I recall developing in my article the idea that all... well, let's say, the lawgivers and founders of mankind, starting from the most ancient and going on to the Lycurguses, the Solons, the Muhammads, the Napoleons, and so forth, that all of them to a man were criminals, from the fact alone that in giving a new law, they thereby violated the old one, held sacred by society and passed down from their fathers, and they certainly did not stop at shedding blood either, if it happened that blood (sometimes quite innocent and shed valiantly for the ancient law) could help them.
Fyodor DostoevskyStichwörter: greatness genius crime utilitarianism the-ends-justify-the-means
Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.
Steve MaraboliStichwörter: life inspirational greatness appreciation gratitude
You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.
Steve MaraboliStichwörter: motivational life inspirational success greatness self-empowerment purpose-of-life fearless
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
William HazlittStichwörter: greatness chess essays great-men
Yet isn't it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga—exactly like that? And isn't some of it a little bit more serious? For Sen. Clinton, something is true if it validates the myth of her striving and her 'greatness' (her overweening ambition in other words) and only ceases to be true when it no longer serves that limitless purpose. And we are all supposed to applaud the skill and the bare-faced bravado with which this is done. In the New Hampshire primary in 1992, she knowingly lied about her husband's uncontainable sex life and put him eternally in her debt. This is now thought of, and referred to in print, purely as a smart move on her part. In the Iowa caucuses of 2008, he returns the favor by telling a huge lie about his own record on the war in Iraq, falsely asserting that he was opposed to the intervention from the very start. This is thought of, and referred to in print, as purely a tactical mistake on his part: trying too hard to help the spouse. The happy couple has now united on an equally mendacious account of what they thought about Iraq and when they thought it. What would it take to break this cheap little spell and make us wake up and inquire what on earth we are doing when we make the Clinton family drama—yet again—a central part of our own politics?
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: politics greatness lies ambition sex united-states expediency iraq 2008 iraq-war new-hampshire bill-clinton iowa 1992 hillary-clinton united-states-elections-2008 iowa-caucuses new-hampshire-primary self-promotion
Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.
Ray A. DavisStichwörter: greatness belief confidence
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.
Virginia WoolfStichwörter: truth greatness equality gender woman fiction hypocrisy respect importance stereotypes clichés dignity abuse
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: greatness consistency misunderstood
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
Beryl MarkhamStichwörter: greatness
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