Greatness - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63597<![CDATA[Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18272<![CDATA[The price of greatness is responsibility. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18273<![CDATA[Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18274<![CDATA[No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18275<![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18276<![CDATA[Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18277<![CDATA[Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18278<![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18279<![CDATA[Great and good are seldom the same man. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18280<![CDATA[Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18259<![CDATA[Ajax the great . . . Himself a host. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18260<![CDATA[That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. [Lat., Urit enim ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18261<![CDATA[For he that once is good, is ever great. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18262<![CDATA[Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18263<![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18264<![CDATA[The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18265<![CDATA[Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18266<![CDATA[A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18267<![CDATA[That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pelf: ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18268<![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18269<![CDATA[No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18270<![CDATA[There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18271<![CDATA[He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18253<![CDATA[Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18254<![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18255<![CDATA[Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame. Ah, do you dream to be mistaken ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18256<![CDATA[He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18257<![CDATA[No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt, ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18258<![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18238<![CDATA[If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18239<![CDATA[Responsibility is the price of greatness. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18241<![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonely ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18242<![CDATA[There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18243<![CDATA[Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18244<![CDATA[Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18245<![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18246<![CDATA[We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18247<![CDATA[Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18248<![CDATA[No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18249<![CDATA[The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18250<![CDATA[So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate, Who dies as firm as Sparta's king, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18251<![CDATA[No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18252<![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15091<![CDATA[To be great is to be misunderstood. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14430<![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10915<![CDATA[To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4929