Plato Quotes

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

I mean, truly, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and if you can't spot that CM Punk is magic from the moment he walks in the door, then you're reading a playbook from an antiquated writer.

Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

There's never been someone like me in history - a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.

Men of genius are not be analyzed by commonplace rules.

Lincoln was one of history's greatest men, but Americans are not like him. He was a lonely exception.

Howard is the greatest.

Shogun is the most talented guy I've ever seen.

All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

Excellent things are rare.

After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano. She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you're really in the presence of something. In that league there's only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it.

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

Every great man is unique.