Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Mean Quotes, Greatness Quotes

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

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There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

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It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

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A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

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There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

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When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

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In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

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.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

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A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

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For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

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I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.

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I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

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I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.

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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

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....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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