Greatness

QUOTES

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe
 

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it - who can say this is not greatness?
 Wm Makepeace Thackeray
 

But be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
 Wm Shakespeare
 Twelfth Night, 1601

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.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
 Essays, 1841

All the world's great have been little boys who wanted the moon.
 John Steinbeck
 Cup of Gold, 1953

See Also Excellence Leadership Heroes

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