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Greatness Quotes (page 19)

Honore de Balzac quote: "Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane."
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. Honore de Balzac
Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that. Steve Ballmer
Matthew Arnold quote: "Greatness is a spiritual condition."
Greatness is a spiritual condition. Matthew Arnold
Marc Andreessen quote: "Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie."
Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie. Marc Andreessen
John Adams quote: "Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. John Adams
Dean Acheson quote: "Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role."
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. Dean Acheson
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar quote: "Great players are willing to give up their own personal..."
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Listen, nothing's better than being useful. Tell me how, at the present moment, I can be most of of use. I know it's not for you to decide that, but I'm only asking for your opinion. You tell me, and what you say I swear I'll do! Well, what is the great thought?" "Well, to turn stones into bread. That's a great thought." "The greatest? Yes, really, you have suggested quite a new path. Tell me, is it the greatest?" "It's very great, my dear boy, very great, but it's not the greatest. It's... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. Jim Rohn
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. Chuck Palahniuk
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. Dorothy L. Sayers
Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life. James C. Collins
There is no error more common than that of thinking that those who are the causes or occasions of great tragedies share in the feelings suitable to the tragic mood: no error more fatal than expecting it of them. The martyr in his 'shirt of flame' may be looking on the face of God, but to him who is piling the faggots or loosening the logs for the blast the whole scene is no more than the slaying of an ox is to the butcher, or the felling of a tree to the charcoal burner in the forest, or the... Oscar Wilde
It takes two to make every great career: the man who is great, and the man-almost rarer-who is great enough to see greatness and say so. Ayn Rand
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 Tolstoy

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