Greatness Quotes

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the emperor of Rome.

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In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good.

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Arcane: League of Legends

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

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Salvador Dalí

The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

Megalomania

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

They are majestic because they think.

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Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

But I did not get to where I am by thinking small.

Ave moi!

Astérix aux jeux olympiques

Gaius Julius Caesar

It's lonely to be more powerful than any man you know and have to live like a shadow.

Sometimes severity is the price we pay for greatness.

Greatness is not being strong but using strength to carry the most hearts.

Fortitude, Strength Of Mind

The greatest truths are the simplest.

— My father's war against the barbarians. He said it himself, it achieved nothing. But the people loved him.
— The people always love victories.
— Why? They didn't see the battles. What do they care about Germania?
— They care about the greatness of Rome.

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