He thought others were small; that was his greatness.
Dejan StojanovicTag: wisdom books greatness poetry philosophy literature poets quotes small poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun
Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'.
Ogwo David EmenikeTag: inspirational greatness influence affluence
The idea isn't to do the impossible. The idea is to show the world that if one man can do the impossible, then maybe the rest of the world can do what's possible.
Jonathan MalleyTag: greatness impossible possible
The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.
Oscar WildeA man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it.
G.K. ChestertonTag: greatness passion amateurs
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]
Tag: art doubt greatness self-esteem confidence humility fame introspection artists creative-process self-awareness depression self-delusion self-doubt narcissism insecurity self-esteem-or-lack-thereof self-doubts fame-and-fortune depression-humor cezanne great-art great-artist paul-cezanne
But what is great can only begin great.
Martin HeideggerTag: greatness philosophy time metaphysics beginnings great being begin being-and-time
إن تَسَلْ أين قبورُ العُظما فعلى الأفواه أو في الأنفُسْ
أحمد شوقيTag: greatness
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of ‘greatness.’ ‘Greatness,’ it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the ‘great’ man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a ‘great’ man can be blamed.
Leo TolstoyTag: greatness historians napoleon right-or-wrong
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John BuchanTag: greatness leadership
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