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Responsibility is the price of greatness.
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
 We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of 
greatness.  
 We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of 
greatness. 
 The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing 
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.  
 The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing 
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. 
The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.
The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
 He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds 
us of others.  
 He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds 
us of others. 
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
 He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have 
had a very low standard of read more 
 He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have 
had a very low standard of it in his mind.
   - William Hazlitt, 
 No great deed is done
 By falterers who ask for certainty.  
 No great deed is done
 By falterers who ask for certainty.