The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

The truest greatness lies in being kind the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

If any man seeks for greatness let him forget greatness and ask for truth and he will find both.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity goodness and truth.

Seek not greatness but seek truth and you will find both.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Difficulty my brethren is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

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.

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed and until by our own lives and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.