Great Souls Quotes

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

Conscience? Great souls do not worry themselves with such little details

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Go out into the world where your heart calls you. The blessings will come, I promise you that. I wish for you the insight to recognize the blessings as such, and sometimes it's hard. But you'll know it's a blessing if you are enriched and transformed by the experience. So be ready. There are great souls and teachers everywhere. It's your job to recognize them.

Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled.

Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about whom prophecies were given out long before he was born; and his advent was eagerly expected by all the great souls and saints of Maharashtra as the deliverer of the Hindus from the hands of the Mlecchas, and as one who succeeded in the reestablishment of Dharma which had been trampled underfoot by the depredations of the devastating hordes of the Moghals

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.