Edmund Burke Quotes

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

There are two types of men: the great and the small.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

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

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

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

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.