A Quote by William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

Shaquille O'Neal

Some people are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them

Monica Lewinsky

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

Robin Williams

Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly, by “doin' what comes naturally”; and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

John W. Gardner

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

William Shakespeare

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

John W. Gardner

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Frank Dane

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

Dick Francis

Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?

Maurice Flanagan

With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

Amish Tripathi

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

Myrtle Reed

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Richard M. Nixon

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.