Favorite Quotations ~  Greatness, 2 Good to Great

"All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The path to greatness is always along with others. ~ Baltasar Gracián

I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great people are those who can make others feel that they, too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ~ Albert Einstein

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. ~ Charles De Gaulle

If you cannot do great things; do small things in a great way. ~ J.F. Clarke

Greatness is always improbably. Petty and dull--that is probable. ~ Tao Te Ching

Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. ~ Charles Reed

God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials. ~ John Baptiste Gressett

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. ~ Robert Kennedy

Great men never make bad use of their superiority; they see it, and feel it, and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

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