Greatness Quotes

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

The fruit of love’s great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.