This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Indira Gandhi, fully Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Means | People | Time | Leadership |
Jesse Jackson, fully Jesse Louis Jackson
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
Real great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man.
Whatever may be the means or whatever the more immediate end of any kind of art, all of it that is good agrees in this, that it is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own powers. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man.
Lou Holtz, fully Louis Leo "Lou" Holtz
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
Appearance | Beauty | Greatness | Heart | Impulse | Man | Mind | Past | Thought | Woman | World | Beauty | Thought |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Everything morally right derives from one of four sources: it concerns either full perception or intelligent development of what is true; or the preservation of organized society, where every man is rendered his due and all his obligations are faithfully discharged; or the greatness and strength of a noble, invincible spirit; or order and moderation in everything said and done, whereby there is temperance and self-control.
Control | Greatness | Man | Moderation | Order | Perception | Right | Self | Self-control | Society | Spirit | Strength | Moderation |
Oprah Winfrey, born Oprah Gail Winfrey
Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service – to yourself and to others.
Oprah Winfrey, born Oprah Gail Winfrey
Don’t complain about what you don’t have. Use what you’ve got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service – to yourself and to others.
Then I must surely be right in saying that we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognize the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.
Greatness | Honor | Men | Qualities | Right | Will | Wisdom |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes m ore conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
Appearance | Fortune | Good | Greatness | Spirit | Will | World |
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
Enough | Greatness | Perception | Virtue | Virtue |
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.