Famous Inspirational Quotes

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Browse our collection of inspirational greatness quotes. Many of these quotes and sayings will help answer the question of what is greatness. We hope they inspire you to find your greatness and share it with others.

"Responsibility is the price of greatness." Winston Churchill
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." Napoleon Hill
"Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us." James Harvey Robinson
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.” Washington Irving






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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
William Shakespeare

"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."
Marleen Charles de Montesquieu

"There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity."
Buck Rodgers

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it."
Rainer Maria Rilke

"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great."
Fernando Flores

"It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being."
Sigmund Freud

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
Henry Ford