Nature Greatness Quotes

#1. life-giving generosity was another depth in Lewis's nature that was part of his greatness

Jocelyn Gibb

#2. The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

Confucius

#3. It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.

Walter Savage Landor

#4. The course of our lives is determined by how we react
what we decide and what we do
at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.

Daisaku Ikeda

#5. We, the atom and I, have been on friendly terms, until recently. I saw in it the key to the deepest secrets of Nature, and it revealed to me the greatness of creation and the Creator.

Max Born

#6. Go to the sea or climb the mountain, and with the ruggedest and the savagest you will find likewise the fairest and the most delicate. The greatness and the minuteness of nature pass all understanding.

John Burroughs

#7. I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.

Jimmy Carter

#8. Take the destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and
its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#9. Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

Heinrich Heine

#10. The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatest greatness is.

Phillip Brooks

#11. When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

Jeanette Lee

#13. It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

John Steinbeck

#14. Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

Tryon Edwards

#16. A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

Rudolf Otto

#17. Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

Saint Bernard

#18. Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.

Wallace D. Wattles

#19. Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort
the unsuccessful effort
to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#20. There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Richard Le Gallienne

#21. Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#22. Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#23. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness
by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.

Blaise Pascal

#26. If, for example, you are miserly by nature, you will never go beyond a certain limit; only generous souls attain greatness.

Robert Greene

#27. Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you
and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28. It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

Henry Ward Beecher

#29. Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.

Joseph Conrad

#30. We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

#31. A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#32. Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#33. Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

Lord Byron

#34. Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#35. Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,
the sweet, without the other side,
the bitter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. Stop and unplug," say I; "look around you, at the vastness and greatness of the natural world." Some stop. Others need binoculars to tie their shoelaces.

Fennel Hudson

#37. The prospect of death is nature's way of encouraging us to strive for greatness.

Antonio Kowatsch

#38. Great men have the nature of a child.

Ramakrishna

#39. When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

Charles A. Murray