Greatness Quotes

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a God-like figure. This is when the moon completes her great cycle, but by other rumors, he shall be dishonored.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine.

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.

No one can make you serve customers well. That’s because great service is a choice.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

There’s no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.