I found these particularly profound and wrought with truth:
"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men." Thomas Carlyle
"Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness... For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs." Sherman Finesilver
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude." Arthur Schopenhauer
"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things." Lawrence D. Bell
"The price of greatness is responsibility." Winston Churchill
"The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself." Billy Mills
"True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind." Froude
"The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment." Elbert Green Hubbard
"Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons." John Ruskin
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." Hyman Rickover
"Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great." Harry S. Truman
"Some things have not changed since the dawn of history, and bid fair to last out time itself. One of these things is the capacity for greatness in man—his capacity for being often the master of the event —and sometimes even more—the changer of the course of history itself. This capacity for greatness is a very precious gift, and we are under a danger in our day of stifling it." Dr. William Clyde de Vane
"A desire for bigness has hurt many folks. Putting oneself in the limelight at the expense of others is a wrong idea of greatness. The secret of greatness rather than bigness is to acclimate oneself to one's place of service and be true to one's own convictions. A life of this kind of service will forever remain the measure of one's true greatness." Richard W. Shelly, Jr.
"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends." Brian Tracy
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