Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Greatness

• Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Honesty, Greatness

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" by Louis Klopsch, (p. 133), 1896.

• Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Warrior, Greatness, Earthquakes

• What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Taken, Loss, Greatness

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.29

• The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Strong, Honesty, Greatness

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" by Louis Klopsch, (p. 133), 1896.

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