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Greatness Of Man Quotes (page 5)

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. Henry Ward Beecher
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. Albert Einstein
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie. Leonardo da Vinci
Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face. Loren Eiseley
Of an apartment-building manager who had killed himself I was told he had lost his daughter five years before, that he had changed greatly since, and that the experience had "undermined" him. A more exact word cannot be imagined. Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart - that is where it must be sought. Albert Camus
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for..."
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. Mahatma Gandhi
Desiderius Erasmus quote: "Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any..."
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. Desiderius Erasmus
Frederick Douglass quote: "Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper..."
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. Frederick Douglass
Jacques Yves Cousteau quote: "Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard..."
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Blaise Pascal quote: "Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. Blaise Pascal
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. Paul Valery
William Allen White quote: "Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a..."
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. William Allen White
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Thomas Carlyle
In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies? George R. R. Martin

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