“Greatness is finding minds that are more productive than yours, that’s what I can boundless.”
“Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!”
“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”
“A man s shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.”
“Even at your best, someone will always have something negative to say... Pursue greatness anyways!”
“A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.”
“Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.”
“The greatest investment a man can ever make is to INVEST in HUMANITY”
“Own the lesson, not the loss.”
“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”
“Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.”
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
“Good and great are seldom in the same man. ”