Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
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We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed.
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.
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Use your hater to make you greater!
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Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.
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The excitement of opportunity and challenge inspires us to push for greatness.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it.
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Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
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As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.
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The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.
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He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.
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I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star.. I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
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Great men are not born great, they grow great...
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The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
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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.
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Good and great are seldom in the same man.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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